Agresso saw an occasion unexploited in the vulnerability of the majority of the current solutions of the planning of entrepreneurial resource of par (ERP), which cannot really address the fast change within a company. Basic information on Agresso and its world of businesses of Agresso of product (ABW) 5.5 can be found in the system and the Post-execution of company Agility-No longer necessarily Oxymoron?. For information on the occasion Agresso addresses, sees the agility of Post-execution of the systems of company: An analysis and modeling approaches with the agility Post-execution in systems company.
Part two of the systems and the Post-execution of company of series Agility-No longer one Oxymoron?
We realize that the slogans of platform like data capture unlimited, indicating of principal execution, and alarm of the possibilities for the report and the analysis ; combined the process of businesses, the course of operation, and the report in a model simple and unified ; or financial operation and not - financier of intelligence in a lockstep, a block-model of average Lego little without concrete examples. For this purpose, the best illustration of Agresso of 'capacity of S to incorporate architectural flexibility-without accounts and Master of register of obstruction data-is the possibility of creating a structure of account of register without secondary-registers of the whole. This is contrary with conventional approaches with financier analyzes, who is to create the complex structures of register with several secondary-registers (for example, with a structure of account resembling x/xx/xx/xx/xxx/xxxx/xxx) in order to adapt to all the report and possible datum fields of analysis, with combinations like , of funds , of committee , center of cost , department , assessment , of division , subjective of account and so on. For example, offer of the multiple dimensional possibilities CODED it supporting up to eight segments of variable code length of account, which allow the income and the expenditure detecting a level of analysis strongly detailed, whereas the hierarchies and the devices of groups of account add the practically unlimited pyramidal increase of account to meet the investigation, report, and needs for drilldown (see the financial applications of collaboration of composition).
Agresso 'approach of S to the analysis is rather than almost any financial information can be rolled up via the principal constitutive blocks, beginning with attributes mentioned in the part one of this series. They are the basic building blocks of the application software package of ABW, and form the way in which the system can be adapted to the customer requirements to answer a series of needs for information. In a general way, the attributes define which analysis must be captured on entering transactions, but they can also be organized in hierarchy of report to make it possible information to be looked in various dimensions. The definition of attribute of outside-of-the-box covers all the principal data (in other words, fixed or static head) in the application (such as the category of cost, the type of capital, the direction, the place, the employee, the center of cost, the department, the event, the type of expenditure, the project, the funds, the type of recipient, and the property).
However, the users can add their own definitions to the need to provide the analysis most appropriate to their business. Thus, by using only the standard functionality, the application can be conceived in function, since the validity of the attributes can be limited to certain definite ranges of date, or certain User groups, while the linkages defined between the attributes allow a being of attribute for had by others. Like another improvement, each attribute or single category of analysis can have multiple values. Using this service, it is possible to analyze adjustments separately each standard of accountancy, if wished, to provide another layer of analysis, a responsibility, and an order. Moreover, attributes can be held for the User groups specific or limited to the date defined for the user different extends, which in the manner it is feasible to keep adjustments of end of the year, for example, separated from the temporary adjustments.
The possibilities to define relationship between the attributes are another principal differentiator for Agresso, and an important reason for which it is not necessary to use an external multidimensional tool of report. Primarily, the definition of the reports/ratios in the system makes it possible the interface manager to create the hierarchies of report which are generally equivalent to dimensions in a warehouse of data. For example, employed enters rolled upwards (or reports/ratios with) budget support, which enters upwards rolled directing, which enters upwards rolled division, which obtains rolled, to the top of direction etc remarkably, the same hierarchy can be employed in the report and the investigations to examine different data.
Moreover, any new data obtain captured based above rule-for the example, a certain rule of account can determine other attributes required. The rules of account in the continuation as well as govern the manner that various accounts are treated in the application, which attributes of information must be written when the users announce transactions to the accounts. For example, an account of direct cost could require a center of cost (which requires alternatively a surface and a division of service), an order of maintenance (which requires alternatively the leader, work, and the type of work), an element, etc In the context of financial informations, the careful use of the rules of account in.liaison.with attributes is absolutely central with the handling of the complex practices out of matter current multiple of accountancy (GAAP), and with the capacity to analyze the geographies and the principal segments of businesses which contribute to the turnover of group. The integrated order mentioned above also accelerates the data capture, reduced errors of entry, and places the base of the report and the flexible reconciliations around all the possible conditions different from financial informations.
Moreover, in the last release of ABW, which incorporates the functionality of course of operation in the level of attribute, it is possible to create a ordered, controllable, and effective answer to a range of needs for the user, who also allows the system to realize in the way in which any new data could affect processes and reports/ratios of businesses, which are completely awkward (if not impossible to realize) in the heterogeneous environments with multiplied meta-data. In these cases, this meta-data require the constant counterpart, and the complex and expensive software systems as the principal management of the data [MDM] application-see NetWeaver thwarts from SAP 'possibilities of S MDM). That is worth particularly for the great competing offers where broad whole of application was increased by acquisition rather than the development interns organic.
It should now be clearer how Information Warehouse d' Agresso 'of S, the process of businesses, and the models of the delivery of the information of report and analytics are inextricably dependent in a virtual cycle. A change of unspecified among these three competences of core automatically informs a change of the others two, and it is thus not necessary of the Re-architect the system or does not inculcate the rupture of businesses. For example, a new process of businesses automatically increases Warehouse Information and the report. In the same way, the addition of new meta-data is immediately available to the processes and the analytics.
In conclusion, changes with the analyses are immediately placed context of process of businesses. In other words, the users of power orchestrating a new process of businesses will increase Warehouse Information automatically and of the possibilities of report. In the same way, the addition of new data of an acquisition is immediately transferred to the processes of businesses and the analytics established. Moreover, of new conditions of analysis are immediately propagated directly in the organization 'the context of process of businesses of S.
Reciprocally, the majority of the competitors of Agresso must count on solutions of third or less leap narrowly of the internal approaches, by which superficially, information can run between them, but in practice a change with an aspect inevitably requires a change with the others two, which completely often must be accompanied by skilful IT intervention and margins of this fact negatively carried out of basic line.
To be right, the majority of the products of ERP now include a tool for course of operation (or even go to one moreover high level, by meaning that the industrial control process of businesses [BPM] tool-see the industrial process control of businesses: A crash course on what it requires and why employ it). For this purpose, Agresso went up with Agresso IntellAgent alerting and the tool of opinion, which was released in ABW 5.4 SP4, with automatically supervise data and events in the continuation for conditions critical or sensitive to time, and with then give an account of the economic conjunctures proactivement. Being a analytics and bringing back methodology (rather than only one tool for course of operation), produced IntellAgent of alarms by a series of media and devices, and takes other intelligent actions. In other words, it has direction and answers tool of the monitoring economic activity (bam) that the glances for certain events (such as the addition of a new line to a table, a change of field, the existence of a file in a sub-directory, etc) and then answers with action plans predetermined this information. It makes it possible the user to install the events which cover any aspect of the businesses (such as the opinion of postponed payment or orders, or the generation of the email to the support of budget when the real expenditure approaches the saved quantity). The tool is completely configurable, allowing alarms and events to be conceived and installation for users with the different needs. This kind of automation of the events and the opinions in any user 'of information system of businesses of S places the company to increase the effectiveness of its personnel and the organization, since data exploring them of ABW spent per hour for important information of this fact is reduced appreciably.
Part two of the systems and the Post-execution of company of series Agility-No longer one Oxymoron?
We realize that the slogans of platform like data capture unlimited, indicating of principal execution, and alarm of the possibilities for the report and the analysis ; combined the process of businesses, the course of operation, and the report in a model simple and unified ; or financial operation and not - financier of intelligence in a lockstep, a block-model of average Lego little without concrete examples. For this purpose, the best illustration of Agresso of 'capacity of S to incorporate architectural flexibility-without accounts and Master of register of obstruction data-is the possibility of creating a structure of account of register without secondary-registers of the whole. This is contrary with conventional approaches with financier analyzes, who is to create the complex structures of register with several secondary-registers (for example, with a structure of account resembling x/xx/xx/xx/xxx/xxxx/xxx) in order to adapt to all the report and possible datum fields of analysis, with combinations like , of funds , of committee , center of cost , department , assessment , of division , subjective of account and so on. For example, offer of the multiple dimensional possibilities CODED it supporting up to eight segments of variable code length of account, which allow the income and the expenditure detecting a level of analysis strongly detailed, whereas the hierarchies and the devices of groups of account add the practically unlimited pyramidal increase of account to meet the investigation, report, and needs for drilldown (see the financial applications of collaboration of composition).
Agresso 'approach of S to the analysis is rather than almost any financial information can be rolled up via the principal constitutive blocks, beginning with attributes mentioned in the part one of this series. They are the basic building blocks of the application software package of ABW, and form the way in which the system can be adapted to the customer requirements to answer a series of needs for information. In a general way, the attributes define which analysis must be captured on entering transactions, but they can also be organized in hierarchy of report to make it possible information to be looked in various dimensions. The definition of attribute of outside-of-the-box covers all the principal data (in other words, fixed or static head) in the application (such as the category of cost, the type of capital, the direction, the place, the employee, the center of cost, the department, the event, the type of expenditure, the project, the funds, the type of recipient, and the property).
However, the users can add their own definitions to the need to provide the analysis most appropriate to their business. Thus, by using only the standard functionality, the application can be conceived in function, since the validity of the attributes can be limited to certain definite ranges of date, or certain User groups, while the linkages defined between the attributes allow a being of attribute for had by others. Like another improvement, each attribute or single category of analysis can have multiple values. Using this service, it is possible to analyze adjustments separately each standard of accountancy, if wished, to provide another layer of analysis, a responsibility, and an order. Moreover, attributes can be held for the User groups specific or limited to the date defined for the user different extends, which in the manner it is feasible to keep adjustments of end of the year, for example, separated from the temporary adjustments.
The possibilities to define relationship between the attributes are another principal differentiator for Agresso, and an important reason for which it is not necessary to use an external multidimensional tool of report. Primarily, the definition of the reports/ratios in the system makes it possible the interface manager to create the hierarchies of report which are generally equivalent to dimensions in a warehouse of data. For example, employed enters rolled upwards (or reports/ratios with) budget support, which enters upwards rolled directing, which enters upwards rolled division, which obtains rolled, to the top of direction etc remarkably, the same hierarchy can be employed in the report and the investigations to examine different data.
Moreover, any new data obtain captured based above rule-for the example, a certain rule of account can determine other attributes required. The rules of account in the continuation as well as govern the manner that various accounts are treated in the application, which attributes of information must be written when the users announce transactions to the accounts. For example, an account of direct cost could require a center of cost (which requires alternatively a surface and a division of service), an order of maintenance (which requires alternatively the leader, work, and the type of work), an element, etc In the context of financial informations, the careful use of the rules of account in.liaison.with attributes is absolutely central with the handling of the complex practices out of matter current multiple of accountancy (GAAP), and with the capacity to analyze the geographies and the principal segments of businesses which contribute to the turnover of group. The integrated order mentioned above also accelerates the data capture, reduced errors of entry, and places the base of the report and the flexible reconciliations around all the possible conditions different from financial informations.
Moreover, in the last release of ABW, which incorporates the functionality of course of operation in the level of attribute, it is possible to create a ordered, controllable, and effective answer to a range of needs for the user, who also allows the system to realize in the way in which any new data could affect processes and reports/ratios of businesses, which are completely awkward (if not impossible to realize) in the heterogeneous environments with multiplied meta-data. In these cases, this meta-data require the constant counterpart, and the complex and expensive software systems as the principal management of the data [MDM] application-see NetWeaver thwarts from SAP 'possibilities of S MDM). That is worth particularly for the great competing offers where broad whole of application was increased by acquisition rather than the development interns organic.
It should now be clearer how Information Warehouse d' Agresso 'of S, the process of businesses, and the models of the delivery of the information of report and analytics are inextricably dependent in a virtual cycle. A change of unspecified among these three competences of core automatically informs a change of the others two, and it is thus not necessary of the Re-architect the system or does not inculcate the rupture of businesses. For example, a new process of businesses automatically increases Warehouse Information and the report. In the same way, the addition of new meta-data is immediately available to the processes and the analytics.
In conclusion, changes with the analyses are immediately placed context of process of businesses. In other words, the users of power orchestrating a new process of businesses will increase Warehouse Information automatically and of the possibilities of report. In the same way, the addition of new data of an acquisition is immediately transferred to the processes of businesses and the analytics established. Moreover, of new conditions of analysis are immediately propagated directly in the organization 'the context of process of businesses of S.
Reciprocally, the majority of the competitors of Agresso must count on solutions of third or less leap narrowly of the internal approaches, by which superficially, information can run between them, but in practice a change with an aspect inevitably requires a change with the others two, which completely often must be accompanied by skilful IT intervention and margins of this fact negatively carried out of basic line.
To be right, the majority of the products of ERP now include a tool for course of operation (or even go to one moreover high level, by meaning that the industrial control process of businesses [BPM] tool-see the industrial process control of businesses: A crash course on what it requires and why employ it). For this purpose, Agresso went up with Agresso IntellAgent alerting and the tool of opinion, which was released in ABW 5.4 SP4, with automatically supervise data and events in the continuation for conditions critical or sensitive to time, and with then give an account of the economic conjunctures proactivement. Being a analytics and bringing back methodology (rather than only one tool for course of operation), produced IntellAgent of alarms by a series of media and devices, and takes other intelligent actions. In other words, it has direction and answers tool of the monitoring economic activity (bam) that the glances for certain events (such as the addition of a new line to a table, a change of field, the existence of a file in a sub-directory, etc) and then answers with action plans predetermined this information. It makes it possible the user to install the events which cover any aspect of the businesses (such as the opinion of postponed payment or orders, or the generation of the email to the support of budget when the real expenditure approaches the saved quantity). The tool is completely configurable, allowing alarms and events to be conceived and installation for users with the different needs. This kind of automation of the events and the opinions in any user 'of information system of businesses of S places the company to increase the effectiveness of its personnel and the organization, since data exploring them of ABW spent per hour for important information of this fact is reduced appreciably.
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