ERP System Architecture Survey Hybrid architecture has taken a leading role

ERP product in the end, b/S or C/s structure? In the ERP industry, the war of words on C/s and b/s began in 2000, has not ceased. Until today, the survey data of related products and their use in the enterprise seem to have given the answer.

Obviously, b/S and C/s have different advantages and characteristics, they can not replace each other. For example, for a browse-oriented, input simple application, b/S technology has a great advantage, now the global overwhelming web site is proof, but for the interactive complex ERP and other enterprise-class applications, B/s is difficult to do, from a global perspective, mature ERP products mostly using two-tier or three-tier C/s architecture, Pure b/S ERP products are rare.

The recent ERP section in the Itpub community has launched a small survey on the use of ERP product system architecture, which shows that more than 50% of enterprise users are using a hybrid architecture of ERP products. And the same year as the so-called to defeat the C/s architecture of the two-B structure of the ERP products only occupy 12.5%,C/S structure of the ERP products still have up to 37.5% of the proportion.

From the survey structure, the B/s structure of the ERP software era has not yet arrived, was replaced by a new type of SOA and other hybrid architecture. Today's ERP software clients look more like a more intelligent user data operation terminal that incorporates desktop software and browsers.

Netizen gh9971 in the investigation discussion, "generally in the factory, or the enterprise, the location is relatively concentrated, should be using C/S." Client installs the ERP EXE file, the server installs the SQL Server, accesses through the IP or the computer name or the built-in good direct use ERP, such ERP is quicker, because the server directly withstands the SQL work, other all is in the local to carry on. But such updates are inconvenient? Unless the ERP.exe file has a sync update feature. --------believe that more factories/enterprises in the Pearl River Delta or the Yangtze River delta are using this kind of architecture, or have his superiority and efficiency.

"But in general office buildings or supermarkets/chain/store/distribution industry, due to the location of the original, so their ERP is generally required to use: b/S architecture, or through the VPN to the architecture." “

"Although B/s is the future direction of development, is a certain market prospects, but its shortcomings are also obvious: Occupy Bandwidth, network printing, China and north-south interoperability." Actually saw the sap of a few customers, the use of a good or C/s. ”

Based on the pure Web ERP system, the traditional market share of the higher brand of products has not been vigorously promoted and applied, such as SAP and Oracle, and Kingdee Ufida. Some of the smaller ERP vendors in the main push and flagship of such architecture products.

Today, with the development of computing methods such as cloud computing, SaaS and the change of software service mode, the hybrid architecture and the new intelligent client's ERP software have become the new architecture choice of enterprises, and the software products have blurred the boundary and difference between B/S and C/s, and have adopted new architectures such as cloud computing

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)