Since 1990, the United States the name of the management consulting firm Garter Group Inc. The first to propose the concept of ERP, after 90 years with the last century, the rapid development of Internet and other technologies at home and abroad a large number of manufacturers have entered the field emerged in the international SAP, ORACLE, etc. A group of leading ERP vendors, domestic appeared in the US a number of ERP manufacturers. As in recent years, the development of management concepts and technology, ERP systems have gradually been taking root, much to become an indispensable tool for modern business management trend. ERP application system is an integrated enterprise management concepts, business processes, basic data, people, money, materials, computer hardware and software in the integrated enterprise resource management system. As a carrier and implementation of enterprise management concepts important enterprise information management platform, ERP system development is completed, the enterprise's various information streams can be carried out in this system, a comprehensive management and control. ERP efficiency of the system will determine the efficiency of enterprises. ERP system as a particular software product, in the implementation process and management must be closely integrated at the same time it is also a huge information system, a variety of enterprise data, information interrelated and complicated. Therefore, the current development and application of ERP are still many problems. And how to solve these problems, has been a large number of software enterprises and software engineers to continuously explore and effort to pursue goals. Present a common problem in developing ERP It should be said, the current ERP system implementation success rate is relatively low. According to the United States an authority issued by the relevant statistics and reports indicate that the overall success of the current ERP rate will remain less than 30%. One can imagine the success rate of the domestic ERP. Explore the ERP system development and application of the reasons for the success rate is not high, we see that, except for management consulting phase of the problem in entering the implementation stage, the prevalence of the following three questions:
First, the ever-changing business enterprises, ERP systems are relatively cure. During ERP business consulting stage, through rationalization of the various business processes of enterprises, the advanced management concepts will be landing. Landing is not a business management concept can be fully refined through several advisory, because the management is a continuous optimization process. Even in the system on-line after an ERP system can only be said to have built a management framework needs to continue to carry out daily management system to improve - the ever-changing management needs to promote continuous optimization of ERP systems. In fact, due to relatively solid ERP system, it is difficult to quickly respond, including processes, data, operating structure, even upper management needs of a variety of changes.
Second, the implementation of staff development efficiency. Personnel during the implementation of ERP systems development, you need to sort out the management of complex, reflected in the actual software to go, but also to respond to the use of party personnel, customer-oriented needs. Technically, it is necessary to fully grasp the development of skills in ERP development platform, but also a software development and design capabilities; not only to master the business and functions of similar systems, but also have specific needs based on current clients, combined with management concepts to client of the development capability. ERP system development of the high demand led to the implementation of the high demand of technical personnel, but also led to the customer's own ERP their Janet, technicians, development of modules are not customers expect. When the implementation of the personnel changes, you will have a huge project risks. At the same time, cultivate a huge cost of ERP implementation personnel, develop effective as ERP project development bottleneck.
Third, ERP system, agile nature. ERP system is a large software system, because of its multi-module, process more data more agility so its weak. How to use the advanced software development model and software implementation of the methodology to increase their agility to enable them to match the needs of change management, and customer demand for personalized, has always been a problem. Agility is a very central issue, which contact with the various ERP vendors used by the development of development platform and ERP systems design. Agility to solve the problem, the above two issues will be resolved. To sum up we have seen, in the ERP development process, developers of technology has a very high demands, they not only bear the burden of the management concept of landing, but also to understand and master a large number of actual business, but also proficient in platform development and software technologies to respond to customized needs. Thus, in some ways speaking, ERP developers and technical personnel every person needs to have the analytical capacity of systems analysts and senior programmer of the development capabilities, business experts, business understanding and optimization capabilities. The industry's coping strategies ERP for complex enterprise systems development, almost all ERP developers have adopted the "ERP
Development Platform + kit" approach to the implementation of ERP systems. ERP is the ERP development platform development tools, but also support the ERP system is based on. Thus, each ERP vendor attaches great importance to developing its own ERP development platform, in the product scalability, stability, invested a great deal of manpower and material resources. Through the development platform to simplify the ERP system to build almost all ERP vendors develop a unified model. At the same time, individual companies also develop their own ERP platform for the industry to develop a series of modules and industry application suite, and strive to form their own standardized product. In the actual development and implementation, through the transformation of the standardized and customized packages to complete the ERP implementation. In fact, the project technical staff most of the work is standardized and to find a balance between customer-oriented. According to the actual needs of customers, change the standard version of the module, resulting eventually in a customized version. The influence this pattern of factors, including the implementation of ERP development platform for the development of efficient, standardized packages whether they have a wide range of generic, product scalability and expansion costs, technical staff's personal ability and mastery of technology; client side customization needs. Throughout the whole process of ERP systems development, ERP development platform for implementation of the project plays a very important role. But in fact, more than 95% of the ERP development platform, even the technical development personnel need to have a lot of expertise, need to go through an arduous training and learning process to master, let alone the information center by the client side IT developers to be extended and developed. If there is a simple platform for ERP development, ERP development of technical staff and client-side developers through a simple training can be developed using the ERP platform and the platform is able to meet the complexity of ERP and custom application development requirements, with a strong scalability and stability, which will cause a revolution in ERP development. It is learned that the famous platform for domestic manufacturers create Hanson Software Co., Ltd. recently introduced the F1-ERP development platform, is such an advanced development platform for ERP products. It uses an advanced configuration-based development model, through the "configuration" approach to develop the ERP system, greatly improved the efficiency of software development, software development to become a "propeller." Full configuration-based development model predicament ERP Development The so-called "configuration" and soon a large number of mature and practical application components / components or modules to a high degree of packaging, the developer through visual configuration to develop various applications.
Developers during the software development process, the vast majority of the development and application of no special coding, simply follow the project needs to select the appropriate components or modules "drag-style" configuration, while the kneading process automatically by the system. As a unified standard, unified standard machine parts, just a simple assembly that is required to become a complete mechanical device, thus greatly improving the efficiency of software development, reducing the difficulty of software development and applications, and applications can be deployed immediately greatly reduces the application development debugging phase. It is understood that, the highest Hanson recently introduced F1-ERP development platform, is a core technology with independent software development and full configuration of propulsion development and integration of agile integration platform. At the same time, F1 is an application integration support system, its unified user management system, PORTAL portal management systems, content management systems, workflow management systems, report management systems, and Enterprise Service Bus ESB is fully capable of supporting all enterprise integration requirements, and can be used as an application development platform to expand in the future of business applications. Its main characteristics and advantages were as follows:
The first use of loosely coupled SOA framework. Service-oriented architecture, so that ERP system in the development process to focus on business processes, rather than overly concerned about the integration or application to achieve the underlying problems so that enterprise applications from the shackles of technology solutions-oriented, flexible to adapt their business process change and development needs. Second, through BPM to achieve end to end process management. BPM systems provide a cross-business systems, business processes, to coordinate planning, implementation, control, monitor and improve business processes. 3 is the configuration of agile development. For a long time, configuration-based software development has long been regarded as the ultimate means of software development. Traditional methods of software development is a software system in business modeling is completed, according to encode the prototype implementation. Include business layer, logic layer, presentation layer, are to be achieved through code. This development model in a large ERP system has been completely unable to apply to large-scale ERP system uses to calculate the feature points are generally in the thousands or even tens of thousands of function points, even if the adoption of platform-based application development platform to achieve their workload is very large, could eventually lead to the system of control. Another model is the system that has been achieved on the basis of secondary development of most of these existing systems after testing, and can meet about 60% of the existing user function, but its development model still need to be completed through the final code. Through the encoding method to achieve operational systems often lack the agility, especially ERP systems need to deal with complex business needs of enterprises, or even the appearance of a module that only 20% of the functionality to meet the needs of existing users, 80% of the features require customization. And a lot of custom work will lead to system maintainability, scalability, cost, agility, etc., various kinds of problems, the end result is difficult to expand, it is difficult to maintain. The only way to solve this problem through the configuration of the platform to achieve a variety of application development. Configuration of the platform to achieve 90% of application development without coding, coding for the needs of business systems, the coding system can also be compressed into the traditional way the amount of 5% to 10%. Configuration of the full realization of software development platform does not rely on the developers, allowing developers to enhance the efficiency of an order of magnitude; configuration of pairs of developers that require low, developing low-cost, low maintenance costs, allows for quick application change and expansion, the full realization of software development of business as the center, rather than developer-centric. Fourth, integrated platform for integration. ERP systems during construction, it should be preferred to an open platform for system integration integration, as an open platform for the integration of various systems to provide an overall support for the environment, to better address the application integration and other issues.
Through the user integration, to achieve a unified user management and single sign-on function; through the use of PORTAL technologies to integrate heterogeneous systems within the network to achieve application integration; use of SOA technologies, ESB achieved through the sharing of data between a variety of applications and to achieve data integration between systems integration and information resources, the largest integration; through the visualization process of configuration management to achieve business process integration and management capabilities of the comprehensive manner. By creating Hanson's F1-ERP development platform, we can see, the configuration of the ERP-based development platform, adopted by the industry experts, led ERP business development model, mainly to solve the technical problems with the agile development, because development of high efficiency, be able to adapt quickly to change and meet user projects "on-demand and change" needs and can quickly achieve a variety of complex application development and application integration, so a better solution to the current ERP software industry is still troubled by the development of the main challenge. It is understood that hit Hanson's F1-ERP development platform before the official release, i.e. in the State Power Ashok Power Co., Ltd., a number of large-scale power enterprises has been successfully applied in large and complex application has withstood the test of practice. Choose a mature and practical business software platform, to develop ERP applications and to meet the individual needs of users, they have become the mainstream ERP software vendors, systems integrators, as well as medium and large enterprise customers consensus. |
