Automatic Business Fault Detection

Amir WeinbergPresident & CTO

Agile Meets ERP

About myself

About Valire

About the discussion

Meaning of opening video

Relevant environment in consideration

Begin with the End in Mind

Business IT Alignment

Know when to apply iterations

Use tools that suite the job

2012 Type of ERP Software 2012 Report : Type of ERP Software

Panorama Consulting: ERP Report 2012

The translation of storm into numbers

Salesforce Growth

Source: http://www.salesforce.com/company/milestones/

Number of Customers

Look at the growth

The significant news is the fact they are changing the large enterprise

Goal is Business Agility

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware_Business_Agility_and_the_True_Economics_of_Cloud_Computing_White_Paper.pdf

Is Agile and cloud the same thing?

No if you are IT person

Yes if your business guy

Is cloud SaaS is the answer to agility?

Business IT Alignment

DevOps

Agile DeliveryLevel of IT Agility

Describe three levels of agility

It is agreed that ultimate goal is the business the difference is where you assume is your main challenge

Agile delivery requires new methods for packaged application

DevOps addressed in SAP (if we ignore integrations)

Main emphasize should be on Business-IT

Agile ERP Delivery

10 and above product owners

Implementation teams are not programmers

Minimum viable product is a monster

No out-of-box unit testing

No practical way to wrap implementation with new test

No continues integration

Long Term Misalignment of ERP

Enterprise ERP usage time is measured by many years

Most of the IT focus is on the implementation.

Misalignment usually come later.

Misalignment is experienced by:Gaps in existing process

Inability to adapt

Slow IT response time

ERP Evolution Phases

Source: KPMG

I like to use this evolution diagram because it provide business perspective on the ERP

Three stagesIT Infrastructure Initial project

Alignment - Stabilization

Improvements note the split/breakdown

Achieving Agility

Split your organization small, cross-functional, self-organizing teams

Split your work small list, ranked together with customer, effort relatively estimated

Split time fixed length iterations deliver potentially shippableincrements, fast feedback from customer

Centralized Control

Distribution of Responsibilities

Taken from SAPEmphasize business involvement in the teams and activityCIO moves gauge agility means to push further left

Objections

Cross-team interference

Resource allocation at global level

Coordinating strategic changes

Distribution of knowledge

IT management's objections

Case of Real Project

IT Foundation

Alignment

ContinuesImprovement

Self manage project

Work with Valire toclean business leaks

Yet to be seen ...

ERP Evolution

Colmobil

Automatic Business Fault Detection

IT Foundation

Alignment

ContinuesImprovement

QA

Detecting BusinessLeaks in Production

Centralized Live Business Knowledge

ERP Evolution

Valire

Testing Pyramid

SystemTests

User's Acceptance

Business ProcessValidation

Closing the Feedback Loop

BusinessIT

ERP

Validator

Requirements

Implementation

Usage

Validation

Requirements

Feedback

Feedback

Take A Way

IT agility is about Business IT alignment

ERP Agility is easier to start at the alignment phase

Provide separation of micro-projects

Valire help maintain control while distribution of power

Initial Rollout

ERP Stormy Weather

Response Time Vs Adaptability

Lean Startup

http://steveblank.com Teaching customer development and the lean startup topological homeomorphism

Lean Startup is an example of Business IT alignment method

Things to take Looking at interrelations of business agility and IT agility

Things to skipSmall company corporate strategy level

Key goal is maximize pivot

Type Of ERP Software

On-Premise ERP58

Traditional ERP hosted off-site21

SaaS ERP16

Other5

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20038700

200413900

200520500

200629800

200741000

200851800

200963200

201087200

2011104000