ERP LX will enable users of its BPCS

Abstract:ERP LX will enable users of its BPCS and ultimately other systems to migrate to a converged ERP platform.

In a bid to shore up its important, legacy iSeries base by providing customers with a viable upgrade path, SSA Global Technologies Inc. officially released ERP LX, a new product that will target users of its BPCS, PRMS, KBM, Prism and Infinium MM/PR ERP products.
The initial release of ERP LX specifically targets the BPCS customer base, SSA Global's largest set of customers running its ERP applications on IBM's iSeries platform. Versions of ERP LX -- complete with migration tools, documentation and education materials -- will be available for users of the PRMS and KBM products in the first quarter of 2006, according to Kari Miller, director of solutions management at SSA Global (Chicago.) ERP LX release dates for users of SSA's Prism and Infinium MM/PR products have not yet been determined, Miller said.
Like other enterprise software vendors that are attempting to grow through acquisition, SSA Global is attempting to walk a fine line when it comes to managing its installed base of customers. SSA, like competitors such as Oracle and Microsoft, want to attract customers currently using a variety of ERP products, to a single, converged platform. That would save these vendors both development dollars and management overhead. Microsoft's Project Green and Oracle's Fusion program are both intended to do this, as is SSA's ERP LX and another converged platform, ERP LN, introduced last summer targeting its customers using Unix and NT-based products such as Baan, ManMan and MK.