Read Debunking the ERP Myths: Understanding the Real Risks for Asset Intensive Companies, a white paper by Terry Ray, who clarifies some key issues, including:
- Protecting against increasing asset failure in asset-intensive industries
- Managing renegade applications at the department level that masquerade as ERP stopgaps
- Integrating an entire ecosystem vs. piecemealing
- Impacting people, the environment and overall financial performance with safety, integrity and reliability
- Introducing risk with API integration that works on a small scale, but is not scaleable
Ray joined IBM through the acquisition of MRO Software. Prior to MRO Software, he was vice president of the Gartner Energy and Utilities Industry Advisory.
This expert advice is part of a continuing series on IBM best practices for plant and facilities enterprise solutions such as IBM Maximo asset management, which enables customers to better manage their enterprise assets.
