Rational System Architect – Interfacing with ERP Projects

Does lack of visibility into your ERP deployment make analysis of your critical organizational data challenging? Do you have difficulty capturing the details of your ERP deployment in your enterprise architecture efforts?

The IBM® Rational® System Architect® for ERP Interface extracts enterprise application meta-data solely for the purpose of exploration. It also links directly into your enterprise architecture for organizational analysis. It complements the existing Rational System Architect for ERP Interface repository, leaving you free to easily navigate complex ERP relationships with. Using SA/ERP, data managers can maintain control over the examination of meta-data and its results without reliance on enterprise application providers.

Users can navigate complex data dependencies using Rational System Architect solution ERP Interface solution's easy-to-use browser to search for tables and fields, navigate up and down relationship paths, and search by application module. The Rational System Architect for ERP Interface tool extracts key implementation information (tables, fields, relationships, indexes, etc.) from the enterprise application data dictionary using the most appropriate connection mechanism for each enterprise application

In each case, the Rational System Architect for ERP Interface product makes an initial connection to the system and then extracts the requested meta-data to a separate repository. So users work in an independent environment and make no further demands on the enterprise application team. The Rational System Architect for ERP Interface tool helps you process by:

• Increasing your internal ERP management capability

• Lowering costs by reducing your dependency on your ERP service provider

• Reducing the risks associated with customizing your ERP system

• Understanding how your ERP meta-data aligns to your business process needs

• Enabling data consistency throughout your organization

• Managing change via comparison capability

• Integrating your ERP meta-data with your enterprise architecture for complete traceability and analysis