APACHE FOUNDATION: SETTING the STAGE for OPEN SOURCE MODERNIZATION SETTING the STAGE for OPEN SOURCE MODERNIZATION An Introduction to Modernization Efforts in Economic America In business today, often a common concern is how to stay technologically relevant without enduring a crippling price tag every time a technology needs to be updated. With how fast technology can change, even in notoriously “behind the times” business spaces (i.e. the US Government), it is nearly impossible to keep up with changing tides of cutting edge technology without the pricey assistance from subject matter expert companies to take the business there. Mayhew (2013)“As companies demand more sophisticated technology to help manage their businesses, the cost to develop and produce applications will likely increase. Customized programs that meet the specific needs of a business are becoming more popular as companies engage the services of functional and technology consultants. These experts can determine the type of solutions necessary to help the business run smoothly and efficiently. Companies such as SAP produce technology solutions for virtually every part of industry. SAP and similar firms routinely send to their clients functional consultants familiar with the type of business and technology consultants who know how to engineer the solutions.” These “technology consultants” provide guidance during a modernization project that enables the customer to leverage subject matter expertise without the nearly insurmountable task of training current information technology staff in the latest and greatest IT developments. For example, a football team requires many players to accomplish its goal but it must have a leader that pushes that goal ... ... middle of paper ... ...://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/02/how-to-use-apache-zookeeper-to-build-distributed-apps-and-why/ Mayhew,R. (2013) How Is Technology Impacting the Changes in the 21st Century Workplace? Retrieved from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/technology-impacting-changes-21st-century-workplace-3357.html Metz, C. (2012) NSA's Super-Secure Database Dodges Bullet from Senate Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/12/nsa-accumulo/ Nemschoff, M. (2013) Why Your Choice of Hadoop Infrastructure Is Important Retrieved from http://smartdatacollective.com/michelenemschoff/169656/why-your-choice-hadoop-infrastructure-important Overfelt, M. (2013): Cash-only business owners risk $100 billion mistake Retrieved from http://www.cnbc.com/id/101187512 Rouse, M. (2010) Hadoop Retrieved from http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/definition/Hadoop
Sapient is a business consulting and technology Services Company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1991 to specialize in client/server application development. Sapient was one of a group of companies (along with firms such as Cambridge Technology Partners and i-Cube) that sought to differentiate themselves from traditional consultants by offering strong technical skills and application development to enable companies to get business value out of technology within fixed-fee/fixed-time contracts and by focusing solely on client's success to achieve long term goals and objectives. In the mid-1990's, Sapient recognized the potential of Internet and started to offer Internet solutions to its clients. Sapient was one of the few e-business integrators from the dot-com era that recognized offshore opportunities early on. It invested in global delivery capabilities in India starting in 2001.The Company has been through significant changes over the past five years, including significant shifts in its client base, offshore staff mix, and target contract size, but the focus on its purpose, core values, Internet enablement and related technologies is unchanged.
The ability to capture values along the Technology Adoption Lifecycle determines not just how successful a firm will be, but whether it will create competitive advantage through technology. Businesses with large fixed costs, capital-intensive business plans, and specialized asset bases will face the challenge to maintain its strategic continuity because it is generally prohibitively expensive to change direction to response to any conceivable structural change.
SAP meets the demand of financial institutions with features such as, high-volume transactional banking processes, customer relationship management, financial accounting, cost controlling, profitability, and risk analysis. SAP allows convenience for the firm to spot opportunities and also road bumps for development. In 2008, they also adapted Oracle’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Software to manage critical business documents and analyzing them into reports. Oracle offers a software with scalability, multiple outlets for support, and a user-friendly interface. The ECM benefits the firm through faster document reading, records management, and automated business processes.
There were several reason for the rapid growth of SAP America during mid and late 90’s. Throughout the evolution, the parent company of SAP America, SAP AG, wishes to provide a better product based on the evolution of technology as well as based on the changing customer needs, and thus invested consistently on R&D activities. 20-25% of SAP AG’s gross revenue were re-invested in research and development. In fact, almost one quarter of the company’s employees were working on research & development activities. Adding to the point, they carried no debts over a period of time as well as they didn’t book revenues until product delivery to customers.
Nimi Feghabo is an Atlanta-based consultant in Capgemini’s Custom Software Development service line. She has worked and acquired knowledge in many different industries spanning from Accounting to the Legal Industry. She brings significant leadership experience along with a proven track record. Prior to Capgemini, she has had experience in various industries which include legal, manufacturing, and international professional services. Her contributions include software implementation, ERP development, and facilitating changes. Through these projects, she has gained valuable insight and is able to develop transformative solutions into an effective facilitation strategy.
SAP did a great job in telling us the performance of the market and the performance of our company, so we knew if our strategy worked successfully. However, SAP did not tell us which way we should go. We knew we needed to adjust the prices and marketing spending on product, but we did not know whether we should increase or decrease prices and spending on marketing. In a word, SAP is a great tool for gathering
Pros of Glosap’s business application modernization • Cost-effective transformation of out-dated, expensive to manage and inefficient business applications • Reduction of the time and cost associated with new packaged business application • Overcoming the cons of traditional methods of modernizing these applications, which can be much expensive and problematic • Glosap brings forth its extensive industry and technology expertise to transform your existing business applications into highly flexible and reliable ones. Tab – Solutions Sub tab- Business applications Category – SAP All-in-one solution
These skills are available to you when needed” (Aalders 2002). As compared to in-house resources, client can get services from a wide variety of technically skilled people. Latest technology can be acquired by the client for their systems with the help service
He is responsible for the company’s Finance, Development, and Information Technology functions. We would not be who we are without sales associates, store managers, franchisees and employees in the field and at our corporate headquarters/store support center who work every day to offer our guests “convenience without compromise.” From sales associates to franchisees and managers, from fresh-sandwich makers to doughnut bakers, from daily-delivery drivers to department heads – all of us associated with Lucky 7 are here to ensure that we meet our store guests’ needs with fast, convenient and friendly service and the products they want while on the go. Project Background Lucky 7 Corporation seeks proposals to upgrade an Oracle Financial Management System from all interested application software firms that have proven experience in retail industry enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and tools. Lucky 7 Corporation seeks to upgrade the following modules to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: • Oracle General Ledger/Budget
SAP implementation is a huge undertaking for any company, big or small. The one thing that every company wants to see during and after this implementation is benefits to their business. The biggest result they are looking for is a tangible or measurable benefit as these are easily identifiable and make the task of proving the reason for the hefty investment in SAP much easier. The question becomes how does a company go about seizing the benefits of SAP? There are several keys to seizing this benefit and those include discovering the hard dollar benefits, avoiding common pitfalls in a SAP implantation, and finding the intangible benefits.
To further shore up his "IT as commodity" theory, Carr cites the fact that major technology vendors, such as Microsoft and IBM, are positioning themselves as "IT utilities," companies that control the provision of business applications over "the grid." Couple this IT-as-utility trend with the rapidly decreasing cost of processing power, data storage and transmission, and even the most "cutting-edge IT capabilities quickly become available to all."
Keeping up with technology is difficult, tiresome, and firms find it very costly to keep at pace with it. Technology rapidly and constantly keeps on changing. Being at par technologically requires extensive research and strategic analysis of acquiring new innovation. Enforcing new technology requires staff retraining and in some cases making employees redundant.
To remain competitive and employable in the twenty-first century workplace, society today must conform to the changing demands. Technology is one of the principal driving forces of the future; it is transforming our lives and shaping our future at rates unprecedented in history, with profound implications, which we cannot even begin to see or understand.
As society grows and evolves, technological advancements and innovations continue to develop and consistently change different aspects of our society. For an organization, understanding how to manage these innovations is essential for their proper utilization and implementation. With technological advancements and innovations constantly emerging, it is important for an organization to stay aware of which new technological innovations can help them be successful. Organizations are always looking to set themselves apart from competition through innovation.
In order to be more productive and accurate, most of the companies depend on use of technology, with the help of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. (Olsen, and Saetre, 2007).