Tagged: architecture
12 posts
Resilience Through Modular Apps And The Cloud
Resilience helps businesses adapt to disruption and come out ahead in a new environment. In the recent Covid crisis, resilient companies were able to quickly roll out systems that support remote work…
Enterprise Mesh: Offloading The Burden Of Software Integration
No enterprise software operates in isolation; it all has to be integrated. However, keeping integrations up to date can be a burden. Now, there's a simpler, more effective way of doing it — enterprise…
The architecture of future-proof ERP
Every ERP vendor will tell you their software is 'future-proof'. But what characteristics really make enterprise software a smart investment in an unpredictable future? I believe there are four main…
Why edge computing matters to enterprise software
Edge computing means processing data near where it's produced and consumed. It's another dimension to that age-old workload placement question, "Where's the best place to do this?" The trend this…
Making ERP [e]xpert, [r]emote-friendly and [p]ersonal
The criticism commonly levelled against enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is that they are monolithic and generalist software slabs: suites of applications, dense with features and functions, designed to cover just about any need an enterprise might have, with a uniform user interface layered over for a common look and feel.
Welcome to the world of pervasive ERP
For decades now, users of enterprise resource planning software have been trained to believe that all the action must take place within the core of the system.
Why Microservices Are Key to Business Success
An old dictum states that complex issues can be more easily solved by breaking them down into smaller tasks, writes Claus Jepsen, CTO, Unit4 . The same applies for software where we are observing a…
Enabling The Enterprise Shift To Microservices
The next time you’re about to binge a season of your favorite Netflix show, consider the complex interactions taking place behind the scenes to make this possible. From negotiating with production…
How to avoid ERP lock-in and seize the service imperative
The future is XaaS – Everything-as-a-Service. While XaaS stems from cloud computing, it has quickly evolved to something that embraces anything that can be delivered via the Internet that used to be…
Building a Better ERP Architecture to Support Machine Learning
Users and developers agree on one thing in relation to enterprise resource planning (ERP) software: it's boring. For users, ERP means a lot of data entry added to their daily workload. While ERP is…
Patterns
Patterns is not a new buzz or anything, actually patterns, the use hereof and definitions started in 1994 when the book “Design Patterns” was released by the gang of four. Since then there have been…
Thoughts on Rewrites (Estimation)
Estimating rewrites is hard, and frequently developers got a tendency to underestimate such a task – as, in their mind, they know exactly how the system should work, as they already built it once.…