Business Process Application Vendors

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Business Process Application Vendors

• By Kaie Kroonkvist

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IntroductionBusiness Process Design

• BPD based on the idea of the value chain as a
  network of value-creating activities.
• Creating a new efficient business processes
  that integrate all departments.
• Process design projects are difficult and
  expensive.
• Negative part employees resist change.

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Business Process Design (cont.)

• BPD is uncertain (outcome is not known).
• Businesses either succeed or dont succeed in
  their process design activities.
• Pre-made integrated applications with built-in
  processes by software vendors.
• Help integrated application vendors.

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Business Process Application Vendors

• Specialization in an application for a single
  business process lead to applications to other
  processes.
• Merging applications into a suite of products
  Enterprise Resource Planning solution.

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Major Application Vendors
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PeopleSoft

• Business process application vendor.
• From payroll application that expanded to a
  complete human resources application.
• In 2003, acquired by JD Edwards (inventory and
  manufacturing applications).
• Combined in-house developed applications outcome
  applications for a majority of organizational
  value chain activities.

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What is SAP and where is it used?

• The most successful seller of ERP software.
• Software that is composed of different software
  and a server as a whole.
• Applications ability to support all
  organizational activities.
• Provides hundreds of diagrams.
• The most widely used modules are Financials and
  Controlling (FICO), Human Resources (HR),
  Materials Management (MM), Sales Distribution
  (SD), and Production Planning (PP).
• Lead in ERP (Enterprise resource planning).

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Benefits of ERP (Enterprice resource planning)

• Efficient business process
• Inventory reduction
• Improved customer service
• Higher profitability

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Competition

• Competing with other vendors by adding
  applications to their suites.
• Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft began in-house
  development and acquisition programs to obtain
  organizational applications software.
• They provide full integrated IS solutions

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Works Cited

• Kroenke, D. Using MIS. Pearson.Prentice Hall,
  2007, pg. 210.