Integration challenges in an ERP-heavy world

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Technology, Careers, Business

4.5 • 58 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Enterprise resource planning systems remain business-critical for many organizations. But these decades-old and often highly customized systems weren’t designed to operate in a modern, distributed manner. This throws up huge integration challenges when organizations want to explore how to embrace new digital opportunities. We look at how to overcome some of these challenges.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome everyone to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast.
0:12.0	I'm Neil Ford, one of your regular hosts.
0:15.0	Hello, and I'm Ashok Subramanan, another one of your regular hosts.
0:19.0	Today we have three guests with us today. Would you want to go
0:23.7	ahead and introduce yourselves? Sure. My name is Alexander Sirfimovsky. I'm a lead consultant
0:29.6	at ThoughtWorks. I've been with ThoughtWorks for eight years and I'm based out of the Chicago office.
0:36.8	I'll go next. Hi, everyone. I'm Anastasia Bezossova. I'll go next.
0:38.2	Hi, everyone.
0:38.9	I'm Anastasia Bezertsova.
0:40.8	I'm also a elite consultant with ThoughtWorks.
0:43.6	I've been with ThoughtWorks for pretty much the same amount of time that Alex,
0:47.4	eight years working out of Chicago.
0:50.6	Fun fact, myself and Alex started pretty much in the same day.
0:54.9	Hi, I'm Brandon Byers.
0:56.1	I'm a technical director at ThoughtWorks coming up on 13 years.
1:00.5	All right.
1:01.2	And today we want to talk about integration challenges in an ERP heavy world, something that we
1:10.6	seem to be bumping into a lot lately at ThoughtWorks are
1:13.7	enterprises that are using big package software a lot and integration challenges. And our
1:19.0	guest today have some thoughts about that. So what would you like to say about that?
1:23.9	Yeah, I can set some context that we can use as backdrop for the conversation.
1:31.2	The reason the three of us are here together is because we both recently worked at a large
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