What happens when years of ERP experience walk out the door?
For organizations running BPCS or Infor LX, maintaining the expertise needed to support the system is a growing continuity risk.
That means preparing the people who will support it next, but it also means transferring institutional knowledge, documenting critical processes, and planning for succession before that expertise leaves.
Documentation matters, too. VIRTUTEM regularly encounters Read more...established ERP environments with gaps such as undocumented customizations and job streams without runbooks.
VIRTUTEM's complimentary ERP Environment Assessment covers your active job streams, RPG customization inventory, EDI setup, current support coverage gaps, and is delivered as a written report with no obligation.
If managed services make sense for your environment, the report shows exactly what scope it would need to cover. If it doesn't, it's still a useful picture of where your environment stands.
This is especially relevant if someone who understands your Infor LX Read more...or BPCS environment is retiring in the next 12-24 months.
When did you last get a clear picture of where your IBM i environment actually stands?
Request your complimentary ERP Environment Assessment by selecting the link below.
If your business runs BPCS or Infor LX on IBM i, you've probably heard something about managed services that gave you pause.
Those concerns make sense. But they're worth a closer look.
We put together this carousel because these three misconceptions come up in almost every conversation we have, and they're consistently the reason companies delay a decision that's clearly in their interest.
IBM i 7.4 standard support ends September 30th, 2026, and a proper upgrade can take anywhere from 90-180 days to plan and execute.
Most shops are already inside that window.
Your RPG customizations, job streams, and EDI mappings probably aren't documented anywhere. That's the layer that's hardest to recover when the person who built it is gone.
VIRTUTEM has supported BPCS and Infor LX environments for over 30 years. We know what an orderly transition Read more...looks like, and we know what happens when companies wait too long to start one.
Has your team modeled the cost per hour of an unplanned IBM i outage?
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Most companies don't have an IBM i strategy. They have an IBM i hope.
One person who knows everything. No documentation. No upgrade timeline.
An IBM i strategy looks different. Documented RPG/CL and EDI environment. A defined upgrade path. An application-layer partner with contractual audit rights and SLAs tied to ERP performance, not just uptime.
The difference isn't budget. It's a decision made before the departure, not after.
If your Read more...environment looks more like the left column than the right, that's exactly what VIRTUTEM's complimentary ERP Environment Assessment is designed to address.
