Business Performance Modeling for ERP Projects
In this Article, Joseph DeFee provides detailed information and examples of how business process modeling and simulation is used to support enterprise resource planning (ERP) with commercial off the shelf (COTS) projects. He posits that understanding how the COTS/ERP business applications and rules will perform and how well they will integrate with external business processes in your organization is critical to avoiding a potentially significant implementation failure.
Joe DeFee
Joe DeFee is Senior Vice President and manager of the Advanced Systems Division Group at CACI. He has 24 years of information systems design, software development, enterprise architecture development, and business process reengineering experience. For the last 12 years, he has focused on business process reengineering, business process simulation technology, software reengineering, and aligning information technology to business objectives for customers. He is the co-author of CACI's RENovate methodology; a formal methodology for modernizing customers business processes and information technology.
Latest posts by Joe DeFee (see all)
- Business Performance Modeling for ERP Projects, Part 2 - February 1, 2011
- Business Performance Modeling for ERP Projects - January 4, 2011
- Simulation on Demand: Using SIMPROCESS in an SOA Environment - November 2, 2004
- Business Activity Monitoring and Simulation - February 3, 2004
