Advanced Systems Integration and Architecture

A cross-functional enterprise backbone that integrates and automates many internal business processes and information systems within the sales and distribution, production, logistics, accounting, and human resources functions of a company.

A suite of pre-engineered, ready-to-implement, and integrated application modules catering to all the business functions of an enterprise.

It possesses the flexibility for configuring and dynamically customizing the delivered functionality of the package to suit the specific requirements of the enterprise.

It can provide comprehensiveness and flexibility because the heart of the system resides a computer-aided software engineering (CASE)-like repository that stores all details.

It changed the basic developmental model of implementing computerized systems within enterprises to that of implementing off-the-shelf, ready-made packages.

It represents a new way to deploy computing technology to give users the ability to access, work on, share, and store information using Internet.

It is the term that ideally describes Cloud Computing.

It is a complex network of data centers, each composed of thousands of computers working together that can perform and achieve the functions of a software on a personal or business computer units providing user access to a vast number of applications, platforms, and services delivered over the Internet.

Also known as internal cloud.

A cloud-based infrastructure operated exclusively for a single organization with all data protected behind an internal firewall.

It is physically located at the company's on-site data center or can also be managed and hosted by a third-party provider.

Also known as external cloud.

It is available to the public where data are created and stored on third-party servers.

The service infrastructure belongs to service providers that manage them and administer pool resources.

It is based on a shared-cost model for all the users or in the form of a licensing policy such as pay per use.

It encompasses the best features of the mentioned cloud computing deployment models.

It allows companies to mix and match the facets of public and private cloud that best suit their requirements.

Helps in rapid and inexpensive re-provisioning of resources.

Resources can be accessed anywhere (except on limitations set by the company's internal control).

Resources are shared amongst a large pool of users.

Dependable accessibility of resources and computation.

Dynamic provisioning of data helps in avoiding various bottleneck scenarios.

Users (companies/organizations) have less work in terms of resource upgrades and management, handled by service providers of cloud computing.

It was founded in 1972 in Walldorf, Germany.

It was founded by five IBM engineers namely Hasso Plattner, Klaus Tschira, Claus Wellenreuther, Dietmar Hopp and Hans-Werner Hector.

It is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market globally.

An ERP solution arranged into 15 modules, automating the major functions in a business organization.

It displays at the top of the screen. It contains the Windows standard menu (File, Edit, Window, Help) as well generic SAP Business One functions.

It displays under the menu bar. IT is a collection of icon buttons that grant easy access to commonly-used functions. The functions represented by the button are also available in the menu bar.

It is used to navigate in SAP Business one, and also arranges the functions of the individual applications in a tree structure.

It contains a list of all modules with their related options.

They are arranged in the same order as the menus in the main menu. It cannot be modified and may be inactive for unauthorized users.

It defines the users of the SAP Business One.

The strategic consideration of the process, methods, tools, and technologies associated with achieving interoperability between IT applications both within and external to the enterprise to enable a collaborative business process.

It is not purely about technology integration. It also includes a consideration of business processes that cut across various IT applications, and so provides the planned basis for technology integration.

It is not some new technology fad that will come and go, but an essential feature of how IT solutions need to be designed to address today's business requirements.

Aggregating, organizing, and presenting information from multiple IT sources in one single view.

Replacing the need for manual and duplicate data entry into multiple IT applications with data entry into a single IT application.

Enabling Web-based customers and partners direct access to the services provided by existing business systems.

Enabling a supplier to integrate with a larger company's business process or an electronic marketplace.

It is concerned with integrating the IT applications that reside within the organization. An example is the integration of the customer accounts IT system with the order-management IT system.

It is concerned with integrating an organization's IT system with those of its business partners or suppliers such as in an extended supply chain.

It is concerned with integrating an organization's IT application with a Web application to provide a Web channel.

It is the aggregation of data from multiple IT systems within a single view. An example is a Web portal that aggregates and displays a customer's stock portfolio taken from one IT system and bank account balance from another IT system.

It is the synchronization of data held in different databases. For example, if two (2) different databases hold the same customer's address details, a change of address in one database should also be synchronized in the other database.

It is where applications make some of the functionality directly accessible to other applications. (Ex. SAP and PeopleSoft often expose their functionality through well-defined application program interfaces (APIs).

It is a common set of reusable services that are made available to other applications.

It is the definition of business-process or workflow models from which reusable services are called.

It is specifically designed for SAP Business One implementation.

It divides the implementation into five (5) phases. These phases cover the period starting with the handover from the sales team to right before the handover to the support organization.

It provides a milestone for each phase. Each milestone marks the completion of a discreet activity in the project: software installation, system configuration, testing, and so on. The milestone has been selected by SAP and partners as crucial checkpoints in your project plan.