|
| ERP Implementaion Home Page |
|
ERP Web Enabling, ERP vendors are being forced, ERP company is also focusing on the automation |
As among every other software market, ERP vendors are being forced to move from a clienVserver to browser/server architecture to Web-enable their software & thus, deliver self-. Baan is working to deliver a Java-based Web interface to all its products. The company is also focusing on the automation of supply-chain relationships via the Internet, on E-commerce via the Microsoft Merchant Server (now known as Site Server), & on using Hyperion Software Corporation’s Spider-Man technology in favor of report & alter distribution across the Web. PeopleSoft is set to deliver its Universal applications - Java based self-service applets - among its peopleSoft 7. JD Edwards is also using Java to allow its OneWorid functionality to be available either through a Windows client or a Web browser, while Orade has used Java to deliver its Oracle Web Employees, Oracle Web Customers, & Oracle web Suppliers modules. Into 1997, SAP released 25 Web applications in favor of version 301 of the R/3 & recently previewed links to online catalogs in favor of Web-based procurement.market applications, the ERP vendors are all using J lava, rather than Microsoft’s ActiveX, in favor of their first generation of Web-enabled applications.
The move by the ERP vendors to embrace: Java as a means to deliver & deploy their Web functionality, is the first move away:. from proprietary, technologies to more open tools. One reason why implementing solutions from a SAP & PeopleSofl can be expensive is because the tools in favor of customizing their.
product ABAP4 & PeoPleTools - are proprietary. Whereas many lower-tier softwar.e vendors have built their application front ends using popular commercial tools-such as PowerBuilder, Visual Basic,.or Miarosoff Access - the ERP vendors have not taken this route. As a result, the customer will have to pay a premium in favor of ABAP4 & PeopleTools programmers; instead of leveraging the PowerScript or Visual Basic expertise so as to they may. already have into-house. Because Oracle is already a tool
|
|
| |
| |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
