Information Technology (IT)
Information Technology (IT) has always played a key role in providing businesses a competitive edge. In the beginning, IT performed mainly financial functions such as payroll, A/R, A/P, invoicing etc. and was used mainly as a reporting tool; what have we done and did we make or lose money.
Over time IT has evolved. Its overall reporting capabilities have become awesome with the surreal performances of computing power, and the refinement of software operating systems and application packages today. This reduction of processing time together with the proliferation of IT beyond financial functions and into sales and Marketing and Manufacturing, have pushed IT from the strict business reporting realm to the much larger and dynamic realm of business PLANNING. In other words, the more the information was accurate, available when needed, and applicable to the core areas of our businesses, the more we could dynamically plan our strategies and make concrete business decisions from it.
This is where we started seeing concepts of Materials Requirement Planning (MRPII) come into light which over the 80s evolved into Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). IT could no longer live in its own kingdom of DATA PROCESSING, it had become a BUSINESS PROCESSING and business emulation tool, and thereby had to create a solid bridge with the business imperatives as its foundations. IT is in the midst of yet another change. This time though we facing a revolution rather than an evolution. We are now fast approaching the era of enterprise knowledge system. The combination of on-line/real-time information, ERP (all enterprise and 100% accuracy of data), supply chain rapport (internal and external links between all activities), E-Commerce, and Advanced Planning and Scheduling Systems are causing a revolution in transforming a reporting and planning tool into an intelligent BUSINESS EXECUTION tool.
Areas of Expertise
- Business Diagnosing
- Defining the Business eStrategy
- Building the Architecture
- Developing the Integration Strategy
- Deploying and Managing the Solution
- Customer Relation Management Solutions
