Tools for Adapter Customization

Adapter customization is a highly manual task at the moment. Most adapters require some customization to fit the specific business processes and business patterns of an organization. Business processes and patterns are unique, and therefore the underlying applications are also unique.

One of the problems of ERP and CRM package implementations was the heavy customization required to make them work as required. ERP vendors tried to change the business processes, but that turned out to be the wrong approach. After all, if all companies use a common set of business processes, there is no differentiation between companies, and that goes against the basic principles of business innovation.

Adapters will have to support ...

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