Comments on: When you are in a hole, stop digging http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/09/when-you-are-in-a-hole-stop-digging/ Andy Hayler, noted industry expert and founder of Kalido, gives his view on developments in the enterprise software market. Issues covered include data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence and corporate performance management. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:24:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Andy Hayler http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/09/when-you-are-in-a-hole-stop-digging/#comment-1155 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:41:21 +0000 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/09/when-you-are-in-a-hole-stop-digging/#comment-1155 When you say "integrating" I assume you mean at the conceptual level (rather than physically)? I think that a key element is an enterprise architecture that recognises the various components that a enterprise needs and where they fit. In particular such an architecture should recognise the differences between operational processing and business intelligence/data warehousing. For example SAP BW is a good operational data store for single SAP instances, but is not well suited as a general purpose data warehouse (which Kalido is good at). A further component is master data management, which in my opinion requires a separate repository altogether i.e. this should not just be treated as part of either a data warehouse or a particular ERP system. The master data repository can act as a feed mechanism into an enterprise service bus, which in turn can supply master data to either operational systems like SAP or data warehouses like Kalido. Feel free to repost or email me if this requires more discussion or my answer doesn't make sense to you (andy.hayler@epoisseenterprises.com). When you say “integrating” I assume you mean at the conceptual level (rather than physically)? I think that a key element is an enterprise architecture that recognises the various components that a enterprise needs and where they fit. In particular such an architecture should recognise the differences between operational processing and business intelligence/data warehousing. For example SAP BW is a good operational data store for single SAP instances, but is not well suited as a general purpose data warehouse (which Kalido is good at). A further component is master data management, which in my opinion requires a separate repository altogether i.e. this should not just be treated as part of either a data warehouse or a particular ERP system. The master data repository can act as a feed mechanism into an enterprise service bus, which in turn can supply master data to either operational systems like SAP or data warehouses like Kalido.

Feel free to repost or email me if this requires more discussion or my answer doesn’t make sense to you (andy.hayler@epoisseenterprises.com).

]]> by: heuro http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/09/when-you-are-in-a-hole-stop-digging/#comment-1143 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:32:47 +0000 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/09/when-you-are-in-a-hole-stop-digging/#comment-1143 So I have a story the other way around: One of our clients is having a hard-time integrating Kalido MDM and DIW with SAP ERP, BI and Portals? Any guidance, light, recommendations on where to start and What is the roadmap to achieve this neat integration? So I have a story the other way around: One of our clients is having a hard-time integrating Kalido MDM and DIW with SAP ERP, BI and Portals? Any guidance, light, recommendations on where to start and What is the roadmap to achieve this neat integration?

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