Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

The implementation of ERP systems by companies over the past decade was a key business trend and continues to be a significant one. While an ERP system provides a comprehensive solution to many operational and financial aspects of an enterprise, ERP implementation is major task. It requires the ability to be able to capture a wide variety of disparate enterprise data to load the ERP system with the information it needs.

An ERP implementation frequently requires significant time and expense be devoted to programmers coding data integration routines to capture the information needed by the ERP system. dbSpaces makes this integration coding and expense unnecessary, while speeding up the implementation timetable.

A Data Gateway for ERP Systems

dbSpaces provides a data layer for ERP systems to interact with all corporate data sources, or if a company has an application that requires information from various data sources as well as its ERP system, dbSpaces is the mechanism to request that data. dbSpaces is an essential tool for the setup and smooth operation of an effective ERP system with its advanced and comprehensive capabilities.

dbSpaces features the following capabilities critical to supporting ERP systems:

• The ability to access, view, manage, replicate, update, query and deploy information from any data source, regardless of location, data type or format.
• Data Location Transparency so the applications can request information without knowing the data source or the physical location of the data.
• Real-time data access to any data source enabling fast response to vendor's requirements.
• Data plug'n'play capability, allowing data sources to be added or removed with the dbSpaces Designer without the need for coding.
• Transparently integrate legacy data sources with existing applications or use your old databases with new applications easily, eliminating the long lead times and high costs of writing data integration code.
• Snapshots of data at specific times can be captured for trend analysis.
• Security features that govern user authorization privileges, enable audit tracking of changes for security and to protect vendor's proprietary information.
• The ability to alias table and column names which may not be suitable for reporting (legacy, flat/JSON files or COBOL).
• Provide access to virtual views of information, allowing users to see a result set that is an aggregation of information that doesn't exist in one specific database.
• Access multiple data sources simultaneously, as if they were a single data source.
• Replication capability to distribute information to vendors' systems.
• Events and Alerts capability to enable business logic functionality, such as initiating automatic orders when inventory levels reach a certain point.
• Persistent Messaging capability to ensure that data exchanges not only take place successfully but occur only once, compensating for network and system outages.

Ultimately the successful implementation of an ERP system depends on its ability to access and exchange the information each component needs to maintain ERP system's efficiency and accuracy. dbSpaces is an essential component to ensure the success of your ERP applications.