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May 6, 2010 from Software Advice – “…How truly integrated is the integrated suite vendor’s offering? If the ERP vendor acquired the system, it may not be “truly” integrated. It might just be a best-of-breed system with some basic integration. If they built it themselves, it could use a different code base and therefore not be tightly integrated with the ERP suite’s older core…”
180 View – The question of Best-of-Breed vs Integrated Suite (ERP) has been a debate since the dawn of ERP. But things are getting better. Best-of-breed applications have better tools for integration. ERP systems include more functionality. The question quoted above is a good one. Some ERP vendors have extended their applications by encouraging their partners to develop best-of-breed applications with the same tools as the ERP vendor. This has the advantage of integration in terms of database and user interface. However it does not eliminate risks associated with reliance on a relatively unknown or small partner/best-of-breed developer.
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