During the first week of ERP system course, I started re-discovering ERPs from a different perspective. It’s different because I had a six-months internship in 2015 working on ERPs implementation. I was a consultant for an IT company working on systems implementation of Oracle Financial Management software (Hyperion) and Financial planning. The experience helped me to shape my architectural knowledge of ERP systems within different big French companies.
While enjoying learning about the infrastructural architecture of ERP systems, I was always curious about how the business process architecture looked like. luckily, the first week of the course partially answered my question. Partially because I got to know about the big picture of a general ERP system from a business perspective (main purpose, different BPs).
We also started digging deeper into interesting aspects of the of the system: The role of interfaces and the Silo effect problem (or not, according to our Professor, the silo effect helped each department to maximize efficiency). This aspect was very important on mapping my previous knowledge about ERP infrastructure and the new learned items and the following weeks will probably help me complete the picture of my architectural business perspective of such systems.