Ten IT Commandments: Best Practices

1. Follow the Business Model:

HQ, Business Units,

World-Wide Sales, Sites (Matrixed)

 

2. Data accessible throughout enterprise

Nearly 24X7 Operationm even with continuous maintenance

 

3. Distributed DataMart / Data Warehouse

Functional Interoperability

 

4. Data Exchange among all processes

Integrated Reporting when and how required, not days later.

 

5. Transactional Processing

Business, Management Marketing, Manufacturing

6. Archival Processing:

Decision Support, MRP-II, Legal, Document Imaging

 

7. Secure EDI

with partners, major suppliers and customers

 

8. Demand-Pull replaces Supply-Push Reporting

--This is Fundamental

Icon-Driven On-Demand Report

"Demand Pull" may include demand for periodic reports.

 

9. Active Web-Based Reports with Hyperlinks

 

10. Anticipate Future Needs and Applications:

ProvideBackbone and Data Capture Now!

EDI Strategic Analysis

JIT In and Out M&A Planning