Businesses running ERP systems are often struggling with a basic question: Will the benefit of implementing best-of-breed applications to overcome ERP system shortcomings justify the implementation and ongoing maintenance cost?

One of the reasons this question is so difficult to answer is that there often is significant uncertainty and risk associated with the integration of ERP and best-of-breed applications. Does my ERP system have the required data? Is the data clean enough? Who will build the interfaces? What about ongoing support and maintenance? If the internal IT department can’t handle the integration who will?

AdapChain has a long history of integrating ERP systems with best-of-breed applications. Early on we recognized that in order to minimize the costs and risks, it is important to avoid re-inventing this integration every time. AdapChain therefore developed the AdapLink framework and partnered with leading providers of best-of-breed applications and ERP systems to standardize the integration as much as possible. Through this approach we can integrate best-of-breed applications in days where custom integration often takes months, - and we can do it at a fraction of the normal cost.

Businesses have always collected data, but as ERP systems and electronic commerce have gone mainstream, data volumes have exploded. Many businesses have over the last decade put sophisticated business intelligence, supply chain management, or customer relationship management tools in place to harness the information buried in the data – just to realize that much of the data doesn’t have the quality required for these types of applications.

AdapChain understands that there is no silver bullet solution to most data problems. Achieving success requires:

• A methodology that consistently puts intelligence back into the data. We call it “Rules Based Master data” (or just RBM).
• Tools that make it easy to extract, cleanse and upload data. We call it AdapLink.
• And resources to lead and execute the task. We call them our consultants.

At AdapChain we have all of those elements in addition to the persistence to stick with your data problem until resolved.