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07.08.08
ERP For IT Brand
 By Charles Betz
As usual, I'm behind in my reading. Helge Scheil posted this opinion piece to CIO magazine in February, specifically referencing the moniker "ERP4IT." While I always appreciate the publicity, want to make a couple clarifications:
- Not surprising that no vendor has adopted "ERP4IT," as I own the domain name... I consider it a personal brand & probably so do others. (Note that I am not talking about the term "ERP for IT.") I do know that all of the Big Four, in high level management presentations, will claim things like "we are building an ERP solution for your IT capability."
- As far as the ERP baggage goes, see this post - I use the term as a stimulus, a provocation. Reality is that we need a federated architecture, looking something like this. We're not going to do architecture modeling, demand management, source code control, and incident management on a common platform... and yes, we do need SOA functionality (including master data management) on all those systems so they can interoperate.
That said, I think that CA is as well placed as any of its rivals to move forward here; they've made some good progress lately.
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About the Author:
Charles Betz is a Senior Enterprise Architect, and chief architect for IT
Service Management strategy for a US-based Fortune 50 enterprise. He is author of the forthcoming Architecture and Patterns for IT Service
Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler's Children (Morgan Kaufman/Elsevier, 2006, ISBN 0123705932). He is the sole author of the popular www.erp4it.com weblog.
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