Going with Best-of-Breed

Autor/in	Ramaswami, Rama
Titel	Going with Best-of-Breed
Quelle	In: Campus Technology, 23 (2010) 9, S.35-38 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1553-7544
Schlagwörter	Computer Software; Technology; Technology Integration; Colleges; Higher Education; Information Technology; Information Services; Management Systems; Vendors + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Technologie; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Informationstechnologie; Informationstätigkeit; Vendor; Anbieter
Abstract	Back in the 1990s, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems may not have been user-friendly, but what they tried to do was totally reasonable: replace stand-alone systems in various departments--such as finance, logistics, and human resources--with a single integrated software program. The idea was that although each department would still have its own software, everything would be linked together and run off a common database. A user would be able to access and view data from all over the enterprise, from financial records and purchase orders to employee benefits information. Following a wave of ERP system meltdowns, many university CIOs decided to go the best-of-breed route, using integration middleware to tie disparate applications together. Today, best-of-breed is still the most common approach. In this article, the author discusses how ERP integration has become easier than ever--allowing institutions to focus on top-notch, specialized software while bridging the gaps between administrative and academic systems. (Contains 13 online resources.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10