IDC：UFIDA U9是基于SOA架构的企业管理软件

日前，全球著名研究机构IDC发布2008年度SOA解决方案研究报告《中国SOA解决方案2008：机遇与挑战》。

在报告中，IDC对全球及中国SOA应用趋势做出了预测，对其面临的挑战和机遇做了详细分析，并列举了全球最有实力的SOA供应商。用友软件股份有限公司作为中国唯一应用软件供应商名列其中（全球六大SOA供应商之一）。

IDC认为：UFIDA U9是完全基于SOA架构的企业管理软件。这一结论是IDC基于前期大量的研究和实际验证得出的。相对于传统产品，UFIDA U9因其完全SOA架构（而不是局部向SOA迁移）而具有了巨大的领先优势，达到甚至领先于世界级水平。

IDC表示，UFIDA U9能够支持国际化运营，支持多组织业务协同和多工厂制造协同，并能够支撑更加完善的产业链以更好地满足客户需求。

以下是报告的英文原文节选：
UFIDA Software is a leading enterprise application management software vendor in China. Founded in 1988, UFIDA now has 600 thousand clients in China and the Asia/Pacific region. As the top local enterprise resource management (ERM) software vendor in Asia Pacific (exclusive Japan) region, UFIDA has expanded its business worldwide. UFIDA now has more than 40 branches in China, Japan, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
Service Oriented Architecture Strategy

As one of leading enterprise application software vendors in Asian Pacific region, UFIDA has deposited abundant developing experience in this field. UFIDA U9, a solution totally designed by SOA architecture, takes "Real time enterprises on global business" as its core designing thought, aiming as the linker between China corporations and global management conception.

One of key characteristics of UFIDA U9 is "real time". It can help enterprise realize business process, information feedback, performance supervision, marketing response and etc in real time management.

Another, UFIDA U9 emphasizes the flexibility of application embodied through globalization application, on demand re-construction, free assembling of business modules, and platform forming. It contains abundant application service components. Clients can easily build up customized solutions via pre-configuration, and re-construct momentarily along with the demands changing.

UFIDA U9 targets the mid and high end market users, especially applied for multi-organizations collaboration and cross-factories manufacture corporations. It supports globalizing application among multi-organizations, multi-corporations, cross-regions and cross-factories. And it also supports enterprises assign cash flow, business flow, cost flow and logistics rationally. In the cross-factories enterprises, UFIDA U9 can realize the resource sharing within each factory and collaborative manufacturing. Thereby maximize the production. End users can share the UFIDA U9 collaborative platform together to achieve the highly efficient collaboration among internal enterprise, enterprise and partners, enterprise and clients, and even enterprise and UFIDA. UFIDA U9 can help enterprise build up a whole industrial ecosystem, which are knowledge share, information transparency and efficiency.

UFIDA Products and Offerings

UFIDA U9 is an enterprise application solution with completed SOA architecture adoption, targeting China and Asia Pacific regions. "Real time enterprise on global business" is its core conception. Service engine, service agent, service management and Enterprise service bus (ESB) play important role in this product.

UFIDA U9 is based on UFIDA Application Platform (UAP) U9 platform, which is an open integration and application platform, supporting solution integration developed by different software vendors, system developers, system integration providers, and value-added service providers. It adopts layered technology system and architecture, including data, business and express layers. Enterprise users can implement business process management easily and perform visual modeling of it. UFIDA U9 UAP platform realizes the seamless interoperate with other systems, on demands application, system extension and upgrade. Clients can deploy the application in different modes.

UFIDA U9 is a total enterprises application solution, which can cater to enterprises' diverse management requirements. Applications include financial management, product supply chain, manufacturing, cost management, enterprise asset management, sales management, service management, HR management, collaboration, content management, portal and etc. All solutions support multi-organization, multi-place, multi-account policy, multi-language, multi-report application. UFIDA U9 offers abundant application components for clients. End users can flexibly select and recombine the components they need.

UFIDA U9 has its Business Models Repository (BMR) based on UFIDA's best practice experience accumulation and combining with advanced international management conceptions. The key best practice application mode of UFIDA U9 are like manufacturing collaboration in cross-factories mode, product supply chain collaboration in multi-organization mode, industrial ecosystem collaboration mode, business departments management mode, business center management mode, mixed production and plan mode, mixed management of multi-business mode, lean production mode, full-scale cost management mode, multinational finance management mode, and etc.

Moreover, UFIDA U9 also contains a Service Components Repository (SCR). It can provide excellent service to end-users.

UFIDA U9's major application suites are shown as following:
• Platform: contains developing tools, system management, and U9 UAP platform
• Financial Management Systems (FI): Its functions are account receivable/payable, fixed assets, cash flow management, accounting, budgeting, tax invoice, fixed assets, consolidation, cash management and so on.
• Supply chain management systems (SCM): It covers applications like inventory management, procurement management, sales management, distribution management, contract management, vendor manage inventory procurement, inventory planning, price management, sales forecasting and etc.
• Manufacturing systems (MFG): Functions in this suite mainly are bills of material, routing, master production scheduling, material requirements planning, inventory cost, capacity requirements planning, quality control, process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing, kanban management, reproduction, engineering change management, receipt management, PDM, scheduling and so on.
• Human resource management systems (HR): This suite includes recruitment, benefits, education and training, personnel administration, attendance, performance management, payroll, organizational management functions and etc.
• Customer relationship management systems (CRM): Major applications are customer management, customer service, marketing, maintenance and so on.
• Business intelligence system (BI): The functions like financial analysis, portfolio management, productions analysis, sales analysis and etc. in this suite.
• Portals: It covers customer portal, supplier portal, employee portal, collaboration portal, and self-service applications.

Go-To-Market Strategy

UFIDA U9 is a SOAERPsuite that developed by UFIDA targeting on China and Asia pacific. UFIDA positions it in mid and mid large enterprises market. Because UFIDA U9 can support multi-site, cross strait and Hong Kong, and international business operation modes besides single-site operation mode, it can better cater to the requirements of enterprises, which have the operation characteristics of cross-factories, collaboration production and global business.

Due to on-demand feature of UFIDA U9, It can be deployed by enterprises in different verticals, like electronic manufacturing, mechanism manufacturing, equipment manufacturing, and high tech industries.

Now, UFIDA mainly depends on its direct sales team to promote UFIDA U9. In the initial marketing promotion stage, UFIDA will select several key clients and do pilot cases. In the long term, UFIDA will complete the partner system construction of UFIDA U9.