Example of an organization that is installing an ERP package. If possible get a copy of the over-all project plans and analyze thae various activities and compare them with a standard SDLC

Intel IT has successfully implemented an enterprise resource planning or ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers and supports more than 10,000 active users. In this way, Four-socket servers play an important role in implementing this strategy. There are many large organizations having a centralized enterprise resource planning or ERP   environment based on proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems. On the other hand, INTEL IT has successfully implemented a decentralized ERP environment that is based on industry-standard servers. They have found that this approach offers several advantages, including lower server acquisition costs and increased flexibility and agility.

Decentralized ERP on industry-standard servers offers some important advantages to Intel, compared with a centralized approach based on large proprietary mainframes or RISC-based systems.

·         Lower server acquisition cost

·         Forecasting and flexible scalability

·         Faster development of new ERP capabilities

·         High availability through clustering

·         Reduced support costs through standardization

·         Budgeting

According to Sudip Chahal and Karl Mailman, for each Intel business group ERP implementation, there is a pipeline of ERP application instances. Each instance supports a specific function in the lifecycle of ERP releases along the path from development to production. Each instance may be implemented on one or more dedicated servers.

The primary instances are:

Development - Creating the initial pipeline configuration, populating master data, and creating and unit-testing ERP application modifications.

Quality assurance - Integrated testing of project changes and system testing to assess the impact across the environment.

Benchmarking - Performance and scalability testing prior to production.

Production - Executing production transactions.

Production support - Rapid testing and validation of fixes to the production environment.

Disaster recovery - A remote copy of the production instance for executing production transactions in the event of a disaster.

There are many Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP and System Development Life Cycle. In comparing the two of them, there some companies now are using the ERP because of its automation and integrated software application. We all know that the SDLC is the first method used by the system developers but nowadays, because of technology, automation is the best solution for the company.

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http://download.intel.com/it/pdf/321373.pdf