ERP and the wasted transaction dilemma

by Adrian Bridgwater, ZDNet UK

Business transaction-related electronic information flow has spiraled to new heights. Companies operate on the aggregated results of millions of ‘events’ and the prevalence of web services has served to further swell the volumes of data that must be extrapolated, interpreted and processed at any one time.

Who has profited from this reality? Well, ERP (enterprise resource planning) and complex event processing firms haven’t done too badly I suppose. ….

Logically, of course I’ve just read a story about this, so here it is: ERP vendor Infor is partnering with Microsoft to produce a new service called Infor ION to augment its SOA connectivity and data sharing capabilities and support web services. The ION Document Exchange offering exchanges “complete” electronic business documents that include all data associated with a particular business event. … more