Enterprise Resource Planning for Information Technology (ERP for IT, ERP4IT) describes the automation of information technology (IT) itself. ERP4IT focuses on the automated management of IT as a discipline – not on the automation of business processes through IT.
IT organizations define long-term strategies, integrate them into their business models, and provide the enterprise with appropriate IT services. Integrated systems that support lifecycle-oriented IT management form an ERP4IT.
By analogy with established ERP systems (Enterprise Resource Planning), which manage the deployment of critical resources, ERP4IT targets a process-oriented solution. In contrast to classic ERP software (money, productive capital, people, inventory or information), the new concept of ERP4IT places the information of IT itself at the center. ERP4IT therefore aims at managing complex data structures within databases and making them available in a consolidated form.
The concept has now found its way into Wikipedia, reflecting its growing recognition in the industry as a distinct and meaningful category for integrated IT management platforms.
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