Composite ERP TM – Addressing Enterprise Integration Strategically

LOGIMETHODS Composite ERP TM

(CERP) is a solution that combines methodology, governance and tooling to enable organizations to take charge of their Enterprise Resource Planning program. CERP provides flexibility of choice by allowing companies to select best-of-breed packaged applications and combine them with their existing ERP modules and legacy assets. The goal is to provide an advanced Enterprise Solution that is tailored to fit to your company's unique business needs. CERP provides a compelling alternative to monolithic, one-size fits all, single vendor ERP solutions by providing your company the ability to assemble a real-time enterprise system made up of best-of-breed applications that individually meet the needs of particular users and departments. Key CERP benefits include: Choice of best-of-breed solutions for unique business needs:

Allowing for product selections to be made on the basis of functionality and fit rather than compatibility or vendor lock-in

Avoiding expensive customization of monolithic solutions to meet your needs

Ability to leverage existing IT assets

Leverage existing systems and skill sets

Focus on new capabilities incrementally in order to achieve ROI faster, rather than retrofitting existing systems.

Increased vendor independence

Freedom of choice

Stronger negotiating position with vendors

Ability to deploy solutions incrementally

Reduced scope, causing less disruption

Ease of introducing next generation capabilities (e.g., real-time BI, CEP, etc.)

Reduced risk to the enterprise

CERP is an evolution that reinvents Best-of-Breed (BoB) architecture by strategically dealing with the inherent complexity of heterogeneous BoB environments. CERP addresses Enterprise Systems through a real-time integration paradigm that is driven by top-down methodology and governance. The CERP Architecture is a reference model that enables TIBCO’s Enterprise 3.0 vision. It is defined on four distinct integration planes:

Figure 1 CERP Reference Model

Data

Application

Process

Presentation

CERP brings together these four integration domains to deliver a truly seamless environment that exposes and consumes information in real time. Logimethods CERP makes it possible to analyze and react to events occurring in your business activities as they happen so that decisions can be made when they count the most. The Composite ERP architecture can be implemented in any given environment and with any existing assets, including Legacy and

Composite ERP TM – Addressing Enterprise Integration Strategically

traditional ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle. CERP is supported by a complete

methodology (Logimethods’ Strategic

Integration methodology) to facilitate its on-boarding and lifecycle maintenance

within your enterprise. Logimethods’

CERP defines the following: • Composite ERP Implementation

Strategy and Adoption Roadmap • Service identification and definition • Governance Model • Composite ERP Generic Reference

Architecture • Composite ERP Vendor-specific

Technology Architecture • Integration Solutions Strategy and

Architectures, covering: ESB/EAI, BPM, MDM, CEP, Real-time BI

• Common Utilities Framework

At the heart of CERP is Logimethods’

Strategic Integration Framework, which allows CERP to be a pragmatic and sustainable long-term enterprise solution by enabling your company to introduce new software assets with unprecedented speed of execution and compliance. Strategic Integration The Strategic Integration framework defines a Model-Driven approach to the engineering of integration solutions within the enterprise. The framework provides a top-down integration methodology and governance model that allows heterogeneous environments to be architected with governed alignment to overall business needs. This Model-Driven integration paradigm

is facilitated through Logimethods’

Domain Modeler. The Modeler provides Enterprise Architects with an effective tool to govern domain models

in a repeatable manner and facilitate the activity through pre-defined reusable integration assets.

Domain Modeler has also the ability to define integration domain models as runtime assets. The runtime representation effectively describes semantic integration definitions and is used to facilitate design-time and automate runtime activities for interface design and routing. Logimethods refers to its semantic integration capability as S.M.A.R.T Routing. Semantic Mediation And Routing Technology

Composite ERP TM – Addressing Enterprise Integration Strategically

S.M.A.R.T Routing is used as an extension to the TIBCO software suite and allows Domain Models to be made consumable by the TIBCO runtime. Logimethods provides methodology, governance and tooling to allow companies to be successful in implementing CERP and benefit from improved business performance, capability, and agility. About Logimethods Logimethods specializes in the optimal use of technology to deliver Business Integration solutions with rapid ROI in the most demanding environments. Using pragmatic and cost-effective approaches, we help large organizations to align, simplify, and integrate their IT environment for greater efficiency, increased asset reuse and higher level of process performance. Logimethods partners with its clients to enable their strategic and tactical initiatives, providing expertise and resources in all phases of major programs to reduce risk and ensure success.

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