EDMS and ERP - where the boundary of space?

He went there and saw an interesting article. ' DMS and ERP - an area without frontiers '. And when he saw reminded of our long-standing (and, in general, ongoing) debate about the difference between DMS and ERP.

I hasten to explain: when I talk about ERP, we have to see is not ' classical ERP' ( a set of purely accounting problems), and advanced integrated systems that are ' grown ' from ' those ' ERP.

Remember I also said that some directors (and advanced! Both in terms of both business and IT) do not really understand why we need more and SED if they solve their problem management tools available to them.

So, where is the boundary lies between the SED and the ERP? .

' Therefore, large companies and corporations who have implemented major Western ERP-systems, are increasingly keeping an eye toward making the class Content Management for ERP. Such decisions ... '.

One can only agree.

' These decisions all would be good - in the West. But we live in Russia. And in Russia there is a unique managerial know-how - workflow, automation that Russian companies are adopting the SED. '.

Now that's interesting. It turns out that, nevertheless, EDS, and ECM - two different things. And we owe the existence of our EDS ' unique managerial know-how '. The uniqueness is determined, as I understand, not what we came up with a new solution common to all problems, and come up with a unique challenge that other countries do not need to solve.

On this occasion, I remember in 80 years, our research institutes of the USSR State Construction Committee decided to combat the problem of flooding ( the rise of groundwater). Why is the water rising? . I remember when we started to make presentations about our scientific achievements to the American counterparts, they could not grasp: why then need something to model, explore, does not it easier to start building right?.

Well, OK. Are you sure that the control system of the Russian companies really so different from overseas? .

Read on:.

' Approval of applications for the repair goes to the SED, and the planning of repairs - in ERP. Orders for employment are made in the SED, and personnel records - in the ERP. '.

Director sees this and thinks: ' I do not understand something. I'm building a '1 C: Enterprise '. We are in it, and requests for repairs are conducting, and prepares people to work. Why do I need a SED-? '.

' An additional advantage is having a portfolio of products offers EMC EMC Captiva, which provide the input of paper documents - invoices and contracts, automatically derive data from them and put in the ERP. '.

The task of converting paper to electronic form and has long been solved a long-standing. Yes, this is not a purely 'ERP- task ' ( in the classic sense 15 years ago ). Means for solving such problems is, is a special class of software, but what have the SED?.