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<\/a><\/p>\nFor those of you not familiar with all of the application acronyms used in the model above we provide this handy\u00a0 list.<\/p>\n
APPLICATION MODEL ACROYNMS:<\/strong><\/p>\n Clearly there will be some debate over where a given organisation might draw these boundaries, including which application type they would choose to use, and as you drive down into the process model more deeply more examples of this will occur.\u00a0 However, the high-level mappings shown in the figure above is in our experience quite a robust one…..most organisations will adjust things around the boundaries but the majority of the application mappings in the above figure tend to remain largely intact.<\/p>\n However, an important exception to the above statement relates to the fact that once again this is a\u00a0 generic, cross-industry model and mapping.\u00a0 Clearly not all sectors can be equally well catered for at the same time.\u00a0 We know for example many utilities like telecomms companies have tended to use specialised software like OSS \/ BSS (i.e. Operating Support Systems \/ Billing Support Systems) systems, and that retailers use POS (Point Of Sale) systems, neither of which feature in the above mappings……all we can say is what we have said before…….<\/p>\n This model is a high-level departure point for your own work…..not something that is intended to fully satisfy everyone right out of the box.<\/p>\n Increasingly there are ready-for-prime-time open source software packages free to download in application areas such as ERP, CRM, and BI to name a few.\u00a0 Some leading enterprise-class Open Source Software solutions, as listed by application category, include:<\/p>\n No, not all of them are equally well developed, and even the best among them may not yet be ready to scale to the needs of larger organisations, but the progress that has been made in this direction in the last decade is phenomenal.<\/p>\n We have to assume it is only a matter of time before open source applications become head-on competitive alternatives for proprietary ones in organisations of all sizes……while also likely driving new business models for them all into the bargain!\u00a0 Watch this space…..we certainly are!!<\/p>\n This step in the architecture routemap is related to software applications.\u00a0 It covers the mapping of some of the most common package software applications onto business processes.\u00a0 As you have probably realised, the process modelling that was accomplished early on in our routemap journey was done there for good reasons……one of which being is it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":461,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kz-a.net\/biz4ge\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kz-a.net\/biz4ge\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kz-a.net\/biz4ge\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kz-a.net\/biz4ge\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kz-a.net\/biz4ge\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/kz-a.net\/biz4ge\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"https:\/\/kz-a.net\/biz4ge\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684\/revisions\/2722"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kz-a.net\/biz4ge\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kz-a.net\/biz4ge\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Another very exciting development we would like to point out is the continuing emergence of Open Source Software (not to be confused with the OSS acronym in the above paragraph!) as increasingly credible alternatives to their proprietary cousins.\u00a0 Yes, everyone has heard about Linux and OpenOffice, but what we are alluding to goes beyond those general-purpose sorts of software.<\/p>\n\n
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