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ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning

According to Wikipedia, enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the corporate task of using the resources present in a company (capital, equipment, or personnel) as efficiently as possible for corporate activity and thereby optimize the control of business processes. It therefore means software programs for business activity within a company. godesys ERP decisively covers all business requirements.

CRM | Customer Relationship Management

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a management methodology that focuses on the customer. CRM software supports companies as they better align their business processes with customers and links information and applications from sales and distribution, marketing, and service. godesys is the only vendor to implement this strategy consistently with “ERP for customer-oriented companies” and offers a modern software and technology platform that integrates all application areas to run a customer-oriented company.

SCM | Supply Chain Management

Supply chain management (SCM) includes all the tasks of contemporary logistics planning and control: purchasing, warehouse management, replenishment and transportation planning, and returns management. Increasing concentration on core competencies within companies means that the tasks of SCM must be run across the boundaries of individual companies. As an integrated, complete system, godesys ERP offers you all the required functions and modules for comprehensive SCM.

EDI | Electronic Data Interchange

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is a standard around the world. It can help business activities occur from computer to computer. With EDI, you transfer all quotations, orders, invoices, price lists, delivery notes, and so on in the most secure and shortest way possible. Data transfer normally takes place over an EDIFACT converter on the side of the sender or recipient of the message over a communications network, such as a telephone connection.

BI | Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) describes the typical procedures and processes for the analysis, evaluation, and presentation of business data. In terms of godesys ERP, BI means the potential automation and control of all corporate reporting. Because the systems of many of our competitors can perform this task only with optional and often expensive supplemental programs, godesys founded an open source project and integrated it into godesys open enterprise portal.

OpenSource

When software is accessible to the public so that the source code is open to change and enhancement by everyone, we are normally speaking about open source programs. The purchase and use of such software does not usually involve any license costs.

 

SOA | Service-Oriented Architecture

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a management concept that strives for a flexible IT infrastructure that is oriented to the desired business processes. The term describes the change from application-centric to process-supporting thought and has a long-term influence on the entire IT landscape. All IT components are encapsulated as services and then orchestrated with the goal of lowering the costs of IT over the long term and to significantly increase the flexibility of business processes and their reuse. godesys ERP supports SOA as of version 5.3.