Sage Advice
Al Enzweiler’s sage advice on using Targets System(s) and a State-of-the-Art Financial System.
What Are The Next Client’s Architecture Team’s Senior System Architect’s Responsibilities?
Architect Targets System(s) and a State-of-the-Art Financial System
It is Al Enzweiler’s responsibility as the next client’s Architecture Team’s Senior System Architect to;
- Architect Target System(s) using a client’s organization chart(s) and Income Statement(s)
- Architect a State-of-the-Art Financial System to complement Targets System(s)
And then use an Architecture Team’s true north to guide members of the next client’s Architecture Team collaborations to complete the 2023 version of Enzweiler’s Architecture Team Methodology.
What is the Next Client’s Architecture Team’s True North?
Contributions Consistently Made to Hitting Top Line Targets, Productivty Gains Realized, Sage Advice, Recommendations, Explanations, Answers to Questions
During collaborations to complete the 2023 version of Enzweiler’s Architecture Team Methodology, it is Al Enzweiler’s responsibility as the team’s Senior System Architect to guide the team’s collaborations using a true north of;
- Contributions will be consistently made to hitting top line targets on Income Statement(s) which members of the next client’s Architecture Team decide will be made by managers on their organization chart(s) using; integral parts of Targets System(s), synchronized databases, databases, and systems used to maintain databases
- Productivity gains which members of the next client’s Architecture Team decide which will be realized by human resources staffing business units on their organization chart(s) using a State-of-the-Art Financial System to publish their enterprise’s audited financial statements required to report quarterly earnings
- Sage advice, recommendations, explanations, and answers to questions which can be easily validated using facts
Milestone which completes the next client’s engagement is an Architecture Team’s plan to manage to start consistently making contribution to hitting top line targets using Targets System(s) and to realize productivity gains using a State-of-the-Art Financial System over a very long duration Manage phase.
When Will the Next Client’s Manage Phase Be Completed?
When an Architecture Team Architects Systems to Replace Targets System(s) and a State-of-the-Art Financial System
Next client’s Manage phase will be completed when members of an Architecture Team use their organization chart(s) and Income Statement(s) to architect systems to replace Targets System(s) and a State-of-the-Art Financial System.
Who Coined the Term “Targets System”
Al Enzweiler
During an Architecture Team’s collaborations to decide managers collaborating with planners and analysts will set and manage to hit metric targets for delivering quality manufactured products to customers on-time as promise using; customer demand forecasting models, supply chain planning models, synchronized databases, databases, and an ERP System used to maintain databases, Al Enzweiler had one of those “eureka” moments when Rick Savitz said,
“We are setting metric targets for managers responsible for manufacturing total quality products and for managers responsible for marketing, advertising, and selling the products because metric targets which get set, will get hit to hit top line targets on Income Statements.”
Next client’s engagement started with members of an Architecture Team collaborating to use their organization chart(s) and Income Statement(s) to architect Targets System(s) and to architect a State-of-the-Art Financial System to complement Targets System(s).
Enzweiler, the #1 consulting firm doing business in the United States and Canada, does not publish client’s names, but Rick Savitz CFO of Justin Boot Company, agreed to have his interview published in an educational video. The educational video was published in 1998 by the Computer Channel and featured Al Enzweiler marketing the 1998 version of Enzweiler’s Architecture Team Methodology.
Who Coined the Term “ERP System”?
An IT Supplier’s Ecosystem Partner
There is a story told in the IT industry. An IT supplier who;
Architected in the 1970s, a Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) System to be developed, sold to, and used by their customers to maintain bill of materials databases and to be used as an integral part of a State-of-the-Art Financial System
Architected in the 1980s, a MRPII System to be developed, sold to, and used by their customers to maintain bill-of-materials databases, production planning databases and to be used as an integral part of a State-of-the-Art Financial System
Architected in the 1990s, a system to be developed, sold to, and used by their customers to maintain; bill-of-materials databases, production planning databases, preventive maintenance planning databases, and to be used as an integral part of a State-of-the-Art Financial System
Shortly after the 1.0 release of the IT supplier’s third system in the United States and Canada in the early 1990s, an ecosystem partner coined the term Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System.
The ERP System story may or may not be a fact. It is a fact that members of the next client’s Architecture Team will collaborate over a very short duration to decide it is in their enterprise’s best interest to use an ERP System to maintain databases and as an integral part of a State-of-the-Art Financial System.
What Makes a Financial System “State-of-the-Art”?
Databases
Al Enzweiler can offer sage advice on how in the 1970s one of big CPA’s firm’s System Architects was responsible for completing Phase 1 Step 1- Initial Investigation of the firm’s system development methodology. To complete an Initial Investigation over a short duration and before a client incurred consulting fees, Al Enzweiler was responsible for using the firm’s accumulated lessons learned to explain how clients were using State-of-the-Art Financial Systems. The explanation was;
Before a State-of-the-Art Financial System, clients were using a Financial System to publish their enterprise’s audited financial statements required to report quarterly earnings.
After a State-of-the-Art Financial System went live within a big system development budget, clients were realizing productivity gains using a State-of-the-Art Financial System and databases to publish their enterprise’s audited financial statements required to report quarterly earnings.
At the completion of an Initial Investigation, members of a client’s Steering Committee decided if in their enterprise’s best interest to complete Phase 1 Step 2 – Feasibility Study of the firm’s system development methodology. A Feasibility Study started with one of the firm’s Senior System Architects using the firm’s accumulated lessons learned to architect a State-of-the-Art Financial System to be; developed, configured, tested, implemented and used by a client.
Who Coined the Term Database?
An IT Supplier
Al Enzweiler can offer sage advice on how in the 1970s;
IBM, Oracle, and other IT suppliers started selling database management systems and system development tools to their customers
Database management systems and system development tools were used by system development specialists staffing Data Processing (DP) business units to develop; MRP Systems, CRM Systems, Human Capital Management Systems, State-of-the-Art Financial Systems, Consolidation Systems, and other systems used to maintain databases
Systems used to maintain databases were hosted and supported by Data Processing business units on-premise
And how Big CPA firms’ consulting business units were engaged by clients to architect State-of-the-Art Financial Systems to be; developed, configured, tested, implemented and used by clients to publish their enterprise’s audited financial statements required to report quarterly earnings.
Any Other Sage Advice on Using Databases in 2023?
“Caveat Emptor” a Latin Term for Buyer Beware
Caveat emptor is a Latin term and so is data. Both terms were coined and used before journalists started publishing terms for using databases coined by IT suppliers and their ecosystem partners of; consulting firms, IT advisory firms, IT services firms, and academics.
Al Enzweiler can offer sage on how over the past 50 years terms coined and used by IT suppliers and their ecosystem partners for using databases include; artificial intelligence, business intelligence, machine learning, digital transformation, supply chains, value chains, Information Technology (IT), Information Science, complex information processing*, Data Processing (DP) and data*
*Credit to Christopher Mims of the Wall Street Journal for publishing in a July 31, 2021, Wall Street Journal article titled “Artificial Intelligence’s Big Chill” the fact that Herbert A. Simon of Carnegie Mellon coined the term “complex information processing.”
*Credit to Johnson of the Economist for publishing in an August 13, 2022, article titled The data is in the fact data is the plural of the Latin term datum “something given.”
Johnson decided the Economist will use the term “data” when the data in question is a mass such as; a social media database, or a database of products and/or services sold to customers, or a bill-of-materials database, or a general ledger database and the term “data” will also be used when the data in question is singular as in data is the new oil.