The Value of Data for a Composable ERP Architecture by Boomi

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Key Takeaways

Organizations are increasingly moving to cloud or hybrid architectures, with a focus on managing extensive applications and data inherent in ERP systems.

Implementing a composable ERP strategy allows businesses to prioritize upgrades in functional areas, enhancing connections and optimizing the use of their existing applications and data.

Key elements for success include ensuring pervasive connectivity, data readiness, and user engagement through smart integration, which collectively enhance business relationships and decision-making.

Many organizations are heads down right now, preparing for a move to the cloud.

SAP and Oracle users are being forced into cloud migration, but many other businesses are jumping at the opportunity to relinquish on-premises application management for a cloud- or hybrid on-premises/cloud architecture. And that means dealing with a lot of data, and a lot of applications.

Connecting Everyone to Everything

When it comes to your ongoing or pending ERP modernization initiative, the thought of connecting everything can seem, well…overwhelming.

As a typical ERP solution can have literally hundreds of applications and corresponding data sets, it’s not really a question of connecting everything. It’s actually more a question of being able to use everything in a way that’s going to benefit the business.

A Composable ERP Strategy

A composable ERP strategy is a key part of making those optimized connections a reality. You can break down critical pieces of your ERP application into functional areas, prioritizing what and when to upgrade while keeping other pieces intact.

The right integration platform is critical to enabling that shift.

Your end goal with any major project should be about creating those experiences for your customers, your partners, and your employees that will transcend a business transaction to create a relationship that will grow — grow a customer base, grow revenues, grow geographies.

Your ERP application is the skeleton on which to build, and the data within it and across your entity is the blood that will provide nourishment and strength.

Realize the Value of Your Data

With the data you hold, you’re looking for:

  1. Pervasive Connectivity between business silos that can provide easy access to what everyone needs — the information your customers need and the insights your team is looking for.
  2. Data Readiness to ensure that your data is trusted, secure, and accurate so that your people can make the best decisions for the business.
  3. User Engagement through smooth user interactions and automated workflows that deliver blue-ribbon experiences while also saving time and resources.

And you can do that with smart integration as part of a composable ERP strategy.