Joule Studio Enables Enterprise Acceleration

Enterprises run enterprise applications to manage and automate their innate value-creation process. ERP systems are the most prominent, but there are also CRM, human capital management (HCM), supply chain management (SCM), and supplier relationship management (SRM) systems. All of these enterprise applications share three challenges that CxOs face:

1. Enterprise applications need to be integrated. No enterprise system runs in isolation, and they need to be integrated with other enterprise systems.
2. Enterprise applications need to be extended. No enterprise system has a 100% fit out of the box, so they need to get extended to fit an enterprise’s automation needs.
3. Enterprise applications require brand-new automation to be built. In select but often strategic cases, enterprises need brand-new automation to run their strategic processes, and that automation must be built.

The above processes are the three generic use cases that define the enterprise application platform (EAP) categories Integrate, Extend, and Build.[i] Although all three generic use cases can be built with stand-alone development tools, CxOs prefer offerings for these from their enterprise automation vendors. In terms of building seamlessly integrated applications at all levels of the technology stack (from user experience [UX] all the way to storage), easier licensing and availability make EAPs very strong contenders for these use cases. Practically, an EAP is the PaaS of the SaaS vendor.