At the site of one of the leading system integrators in Ukraine appeared Poll: When do you attract IT professionals? The second most popular response was the basis for building business applications. What was that cause? In this issue we have tried to find out below … tightening competition in the market and increasing demands for business dictates the need for advanced information technology in business management. Almost in front of each head of a question – how to build effective and profitable business? This, of course, the head wants to do it with minimum cost to manage and support. Huge amounts of information and the desire to make decisions in real time on the basis of full and reliable information, making such a desire almost impossible without the use of class ERP, CRM, HRM, etc.
The use of modern automation helps companies dramatically improve efficiency and profitability. The optimal allocation and efficient use of resources, effective management processes provides opportunity to concentrate on solving key business problems, not wasting time on routine operations. Ie for the head has become an urgent problem of efficient information management in a complex that quite successfully solved by creating a unified information environment and build a series of high-quality business applications at the company. It is worth noting that while the main burden fall on the shoulders of the IT department, which should provide effective automation and continuous operation of automated business processes. For efficient operation of automation is extremely important point is correct design and implementation of the basis of business applications, allowing you to keep a stable investment and develop business in the future. Build and support base begins with the formation of an effective and manageable infrastructure that ensures full compliance with the requirements of business applications and IT infrastructure at the expense of proper equipment selection and configuration. The hardware and software configuration is important for high performance and correct operation at all levels of business applications: application servers, Web services, database management system and software for business users. Also should be given to the planning of computing resources, which helps make the modernization of IT infrastructure and optimize utilization of hardware resources on the basis of statistical analysis data on their use, the dynamics of growth media, etc.
The correct construction and tuning of the basis of business applications are essential for continued effective operation of the system. That's why for its construction should be attract qualified, and preferably certified specialists in this field. When choosing a company-integrator should pay attention to the experience and the availability of industry expertise building landscape business applications for large companies with demanding fault tolerance (such as banks, service providers, retailers, etc.), which provides a deep understanding of customer needs the company. Your choice should stop at the company that can provide clearly defined procedure for setting up and development of server infrastructure. This formalization will continuously develop the system, taking into account trends in the use of business applications and reduce dependence on human factors. Also important thing is to provide round the clock support from a partner – consultants certified professionals make it possible to quickly solve problems that arise in the operation of the basis of business applications. Thus, provided that all or even most of these recommendations, the likelihood of building effective business applications, significantly increased!