Do not think that ERP is always
of foreign moon: the heart of rock
ERP industry has a strange phenomenon. Many SAP CIO is listening to the take a look at SAP's technical truth. Take a mainstream product SAP R3 for instance. R3 created a SAP, but since the early 90s in the last century, a large number of new technologies are emerging, and SAP's R & D can not wait for these theories and the technology matures, applications can only be half-cooked.
the sky with the Internet boom of the XML, WebService, and other new technologies are emerging, SAP overwhelmed, a born in the late 80s to lead the software architecture is still carrying the millennium, the result is the large number of users slow response, such as cattle, old and new technologies so that development costs of complex giant has a longer development cycle high.
SAP learned it later, and all use of open technology, so there NetWeaver. However, Oracle's JAVA-based platform management software in 2000, wind and water out. NetWeaver platform is a technology framework, developed over the past SAP R3 all walks of life as a function of no law in the NetWeaver application to run directly on the need to re-write the code again.
This creates an awkward thing. SAP pushing NetWeaver, but they do not have much available on the NetWeaver application functionality (you think all the world over R3 500 on the application can be ran on the intact in netweaver ). R3 have ready-made features, but SAP headquarters in order to gradually replace the reduction of R3, R3 and support. So many customers to spend money to buy NetWeaver platform, to buy R3 software, two technology platforms are not smoothly connected to each other! some no choice but to pay the high cost of customers in the NetWeaver platform, the application of existing business development R3. SAP upgrade while claiming to be smooth, but look at actual cases, upgrade Pofeizhouzhe, upgraded many features are lost, more harm than good.
the other hand, domestic ERP vendors. The first is the post with the technical advantages, when the SAP was wearing shackles and 80s of the 20th century into the 21st century, the domestic manufacturers was able to quickly adopt the latest proven technology, such as the introduction in 1998, UF The high-end products NC, at the outset by the international advanced B / S architecture; and UF in 2008, launched a new generation of enterprise management suite U9, is the first SOA-based framework for the management of software products, go again In front of the international manufacturers. SOA characteristics of loosely coupled architecture allows companies not to abolish the basis of existing modules, according to a modular way to add new services or update existing services, led to many new applications and ERP integration to address new business needs.
Another advantage is the domestic manufacturers recognize the urgency of innovation even more fully. After years of development, SAP and other foreign manufacturers have been breeding a technological inertia, At the same time gradually abandoned the technology innovation. and this is a good opportunity to catch up domestic manufacturers horse. such as Kingdee has been in its mobile commerce services and products to expand R & D investment BOS. Although Kingdee domestic and foreign counterparts in the technical level, there are still some gap, but the persistent spirit of innovation has been to allow SAP to shame. and another on behalf of domestic mm UF ERP software, in its U8, NC market-leading products have been after, still forge ahead, SOA-based organization released soon U9 Let SAP feel the pressure, so that people are proud of the sense of fun.
Last but not least, innovation should focus on the customer's needs, that is, we often say, has been plagued by criticism: Chinese translation of weird, technical staff can understand English only message that the local manufacturers hh occupy dominant language, the software interface, natural language people used to meet. more commendable is that some manufacturers of depth understanding of the unique, not only to stay in the software interface and the language. such as the UF NC first in the country support the deep-seated needs, and then won the high degree of market recognition.
we can believe that ERP software is technically beyond the domestic foreign manufacturers are not elusive. just like a day paid off more than a decade between the domestic ERP's has become a reality.
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