As usual, I'm behind in my reading. Helge Scheil posted this opinion piece to CIO magazine in February, specifically referencing the moniker "ERP4IT." While I always appreciate the publicity, want to make a couple clarifications:

- Not surprising that no vendor has adopted "ERP4IT," as I own the domain name... I consider it a personal brand & probably so do others. (Note that I am not talking about the term "ERP for IT.") I do know that all of the Big Four, in high level management presentations, will claim things like "we are building an ERP solution for your IT capability."

- As far as the ERP baggage goes, see this post - I use the term as a stimulus, a provocation. Reality is that we need a federated architecture, looking something like this. We're not going to do architecture modeling, demand management, source code control, and incident management on a common platform... and yes, we do need SOA functionality (including master data management) on all those systems so they can interoperate.

That said, I think that CA is as well placed as any of its rivals to move forward here; they've made some good progress lately.

Cheers,

Charlie