Problems faced by Enterprise Informatization

Enterprise Informatization Construction

Problems faced by Enterprise Informatization

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Summary

Problems faced by enterprise informatization and Discussion on solving these problems

 

 

 

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1. Problems faced by enterprise informatization construction today 1

1.1 I. I am not aware that informatization and industrialization are an integral whole 1

1.2 II. Scattered systems, resulting in information islands 1

1.3 3. rigid systems cannot adapt to business changes frequently 2

1.4 IV. Lack of an open and Sustainable Development Environment 3

2. How to solve the problems faced by enterprise informatization construction 3

2.1 complete enterprise application integration 3

2.2 establish a BPM (Business Process Management) Platform 4

 

 

 

 

 

Problems faced by enterprise informatization construction today
I. I have not realized that informatization and industrialization are an inseparable whole.

In the past, we only purchased some hardware devices and some application software to assist office workers in traditional daily office work, so as to improve office efficiency and reduce office costs.

In the past, we only purchased some advanced production equipment and invested in deep coal processing to improve the economic efficiency of enterprises.

This concept leads to the isolation of industrialization and informatization, and holds that industrialization and informatization are independent of each other. it is not seen that industrialization and informatization are actually opposite and unified, and they are mutually restricted and mutually promoted.

Since we did not have this kind of consciousness before, we have formed many isolated management systems and industrial control systems.

2. Scattered systems, resulting in isolated information islands

The so-called information islands refers to the full isolation between departments and departments (such as financial information and various plan information) between different departments of a unit due to various reasons) unable to smoothly flow between departments. In this way, information islands will be formed.

Information Islands are a serious problem in the process of enterprise informatization construction and an important bottleneck for improving the efficiency of informatization.

To sum up, the technical adverse effects of "information islands" can be roughly divided into the following aspects:

• Data Consistency cannot be guaranteed
  

Because the information Definition and collection process are independent of each other, the same data of an enterprise may be inconsistent in different applications.

• Timely information sharing and difficult feedback
  

The conflict between information cannot be fully shared in a timely manner is prominent, and "information islands" in enterprises are everywhere.

• Information must be input multiple times
  

The repeated collection of information is not only an additional task, but also a consequence of data distortion.

Information silos make a large number of information resources unable to fully play their due roles and are inefficient. They have become the biggest obstacle to the further development of information construction.

Currently, enterprise information system construction can be summarized into three situations:

• Information systems developed by enterprises themselves (or externally;
  
• Some purchased and developed information systems;
  
• Purchase all the information systems plus secondary development.
  

No matter which of the above situations, in terms of the operating effect of the enterprise information system: information is shared only within a department; or, it is limited to sharing information within a professional and cannot "interact" with other majors ".

Obviously, "information islands" is not only related to software products, but also closely related to implementation and application level.

From this perspective, even if enterprises buy a software product with a high degree of integration, as long as they follow the traditional management model, there will also be "information islands.

Conversely, if you implement a set of software products that cannot be integrated, because they are designed according to the traditional management model, their structure is "closed, then its future must be isolated.

3. rigid systems cannot adapt to business changes

As the pace of Enterprise Informatization accelerates, more and more businesses are incorporated into the Information System. Due to the continuous optimization of the business, purchasing general-purpose software alone cannot reflect the characteristics of the industry, it is difficult to adapt to the changing business needs. The system update speed lags far behind the pace of enterprise reform.

Many times, software developers often say to business personnel of enterprises, "You cannot tell us how to develop your business ", the business staff of an enterprise always say to software developers, "If we never change our business, everyone can clarify what we want your development system to do"

The conflicts between the two parties are irreconcilable, but this is not the case of which party is wrong.

The mistake is that the old software development method is no longer able to adapt to new enterprise needs.

Enterprise Informatization has gone through a new era after typing and formatting, accounting computerization, office automation, paperless office, and Internet bubble

The requirements of enterprises for informatization are no longer "paperless office", which saves some office costs or rankings on the Internet to achieve advertising results.

Enterprise Managers:

• Efficient and transparent handling of business processes
  
• The issuance of government decrees and feedback of opinions should be immediate and accurate
  
• Any behavior should be carried out in an environment where "makers, messengers, and supervisors" check and balance each other
  
• When developing a new process, managers can refer to the advantages and disadvantages of the previous process.
  
• In the execution process, the messenger can get the process constraints and get the process guidance.
  
• The supervisor can promptly detect various violations in the process, correct them in time, and perform post-event assessments.
  

Iv. Lack of an open and Sustainable Development Environment

In the development of various enterprise application systems, because each system is independent of each other, there are many identical functional modules, such as "user login module", "System Log Module ", these modules are often repeatedly developed, which wastes a lot of development time and effort, so that developers cannot be freed from repetitive basic work, there is no more time to focus on the specific business of the enterprise.

How to solve the problems faced by Enterprise Informatization Construction
Complete Enterprise Application Integration

EAI is short for enterprise application integration. Its Chinese name is "enterprise application integration"

EAI is a method and technology that integrates heterogeneous applications built on different platforms and solutions. By establishing an underlying structure, EAI can connect Heterogeneous Systems, Applications, and data sources across the entire enterprise to achieve seamless data sharing and exchange among various systems within the enterprise.

EAI associates processes, software, standards, and hardware to achieve seamless integration between two or more enterprise systems, making them as a whole.

The content included in EAI is complex, involving various layers of enterprise systems such as structure, hardware, software, and processes.

Business Process Integration: When business processes are integrated, enterprises must define, authorize, and manage various business information exchanges in various business systems, to improve operations, reduce costs, and improve response speed. Business process integration includes business management, process simulation, and workflows that integrate tasks, processes, organizations, and inbound and outbound information, as well as tools required for each step of business processing.

Application Integration provides near real-time integration for data and functions in two applications

Data integration: To complete application integration and Business Process Integration, you must first solve the problem of data and database integration.

Platform Integration: To achieve system integration, the underlying structure, software, hardware, and special requirements of heterogeneous networks must be integrated. The platform integrates some processes and tools to ensure fast and secure communication between these systems.

Establish a BPM (Business Process Management) Platform

BPM is short for business process management. The Chinese name is "business process management"

The business process management platform is based on changes in the business environment, A system that promotes integration and adjustment of business methods and solutions between people, between people and systems, and between systems and systems.

Business Process Management should include "modeling-implementation-monitoring-management" and other processes

The disadvantage of the current information system development method is that the demand expression is not clear and the efficiency is not high. In this way of thinking, the process is solidified in the system, and enterprises cannot easily and quickly change the business process as the business environment changes, changes in the enterprise environment make it necessary for enterprises to quickly adjust their businesses to respond. The emergence of BPM aims to solve the agility, real-time performance evaluation, and resource integration and optimization problems brought about by real-time changes in enterprise processes, these problems cannot be solved by traditional OA and workflow.

With BPM, You can automate business processes and integrate and measure your business through process analysis and monitoring, quantifiable improvement results can be obtained from the business, organization, and IT perspectives. This effect will become more and more significant as managers analyze and optimize processes through BPM.

A complete BPM system is structured by main elements such as the graphical process design environment, process management and monitoring, BPM engine, user execution environment, and underlying EAI platform that integrates various resources. In general, BPM is based on the Service Oriented Architecture. BPM creates and provides a BPM process across application systems by bundling services of other application systems. It can also combine various simple service workers into new services to modularize the basic elements of BPM management, and can be used cyclically.

In addition, since BPM records all activities of a business process, key indicators required for process management can be set, provide real-time and intuitive performance data for business, organizational, and individual persons to process implementers and managers to achieve effective results of objective determination.