SMEs are the major IT vendor’s focus of attention. And medium-sized information technology market in different industries, different regions, between the levels of different applications, how to cross and beyond?
Industry segments to the ERP implementation, in fact, cause great difficulty. Experience in the manufacturing sector can be shared circulation? Light industry, energy industry experience can be understood? Industry applications and customization of generalization is ERP paradox proposition.
The best service is often individualized customization, while the benefit is the standardization of the largest service-oriented general. In the ERP implementation process, generalization and customization of the balance is most difficult to grasp a golden point. In a different industry, customized services, greater extension, but can not fully enjoy the experience. In between generalization and customization of information technology service providers must find beyond the industry use Unicode, and this coding, information technology professionals, known as genes.
SMEs do not need dinosaurs class program, and some industrial applications do not need the full implementation, even if fully implemented, there are applications for emphasis. In particular, a different understanding of information technology enterprises not the same as for high and low level of ERP applications missing. This makes the genetic information is more important for SMEs, it can experience a variety of dynamic levels of the gap between different applications to find the most suitable way to implement the business and implementation of the depth of the enterprise's internal and external resources, done the best deployment. To use old-fashioned wooden barrel theory, short-board decision to the carrying capacity of the entire barrel, while the ERP with the dynamic adjustment of the smart genes, then the amount of water determines the bucket size.
All of the ERP software there are some secondary development of an appropriate function. Because it is not an enterprise directly into another business can be successfully advanced management model, where there are individual needs of enterprises. Thus, ERP software, the secondary development function can be a passive adaptation to the individual needs of businesses, but can take the initiative to undertake individual needs of enterprises. After all, not for information technology and information technology, information should have the intelligence genes. Who is the first to decipher the gene's password, who will no doubt dominate the market.
The needs of SMEs to the database
Although the limited size of small and medium enterprises, but in business activity in the same kinds of information can not be separated. For an enterprise, every day all kinds of businesses, generate large amounts of data, how to manage and make good use of these data vital to the development of enterprises. The role of the database is in the organization and management of these large and complex information embodied. If it is for individuals, a notebook personal data may be managed well, but for an enterprise is clearly not achievable.
First of all, small and medium enterprises need to use the database to replace the manual and other traditional means to manage information in the following areas:
(1) The need for effective preservation of information
Information for enterprises, means of wealth. Enterprises will be all kinds of information into the database, both for preservation, but also easy to recover and save the cost of traditional paper is much lower.
(2) The need for a powerful search functions
There is a strong function of the database query. Imagine that you are willing to spend a few hours to find a line from a pile of paper records, or wish to adopt a simple database query, within a few seconds, the required information?
(3) The need for a powerful statistics and reporting capabilities
For corporate decision-makers, the information needed to more abstract. They need to make large amounts of data from the statistics of science to generate various statistical reports, these statistical reports is the business decision-makers are most concerned about data. Database can help quickly and produce statistical reports.
Second, the small and medium enterprises also need to use the database to build a variety of applications. Enterprise information technology in various applications can not do without the database support. Enterprises in the development of MRP, MIS, ERP, CIMS, websites, e-commerce applications, we also need to have a database to match.
SMEs and large enterprises in the demand for the differences
There is no doubt, SMEs need a database, but because of the small and medium enterprises are typically small, which lead to their demands on the database with large enterprises is different. This difference is mainly manifested in the following areas:
Data size
Small and medium enterprises the amount of data relative to large-scale enterprises is relatively small. Only for a GB-level data requirements of business, use DB2, Oracle and other large database, it is somewhat a waste of.
Function
Function of the database is naturally the one hand, the richer the better, although a large database provides a variety of related functions, but for small and medium enterprises, not always need them. On the other hand, SMEs also need a database can be as much as possible to provide rich functionality, rather than blindly simple.
Development of small and Medium Enterprises hopes to quickly develop against the database. Although it can not require it, as some large-scale database as native integrated development environment and tools, but also asked to support a variety of other development languages and tools to companies the necessary flexibility to develop their own applications. |
