Current Technology Trends

Critical Success and Failure Factors of ERP Implementations: A Market Perspective–Continued

ERP Business Functions
The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a unified set of programs and applications that provides support for core organizational activities such as supplychain, operations, manufacturing, distribution, finance and accounting, sales and marketing and human resources (Prasad Bingi, 1999). In a nutshell, an ERP systemhelps the different corporate functions of the organization share [...]

Critical Success and Failure Factors of ERP Implementations: A Market Perspective

Every year, according to the Project Management Institute (PMI), nearly 70-80% of all Enterprise Resource Planning implementation projects fail, go over-budget or go live past the original deadline (A. Roman, 2005). There are various reasons attributed to the success or failure of ERP Implementations. One of the reasons is resistance to change and top [...]

ERP Packages and Best Of the Breed Business Softwares

There have been a lot of discussions around Best-of-the-breed Business Soft wares and ERP Packages.
Best of the Breed Business Softwares are suited to manage specific business functions whereas a fully integrated software or ERP Package comes with a number of Integrated Modules that can handle business functions across different departments, verticals and industries.
Rather than comparing [...]

Centralized Procurement in SCM

Centralized Procurement can be defined as the strategic Sourcing of Commodities or Raw Materials from a centralized source or Supplier. The traditional method of procurement was to source the same material from different suppliers in different business units of an organization. For Example, for a Company having two manufacturing units in two geographically distant cities [...]

ERP India

Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP Software Market in India has emerged in the last decade as a one of the major contributors to ERP Sales in the Global Market. Some Experts believe that the ERP Sales in North American and European Continents has seen a decline in terms of Implementation Projects. Most ERP Project uptakes [...]

ERP In Current Times

In the current times allocating huge funds and planning to execute an ERP Implementation is out of practice. These are the times of Instant Business Solutions, low cost consulting and quicker ROI realization. Despite the economic down slide, ERP is still very much Alive & kicking.
ERP has become all the more important in the field [...]

Advantages of Outsourcing ERP Implementations

ERP Implementation outsourcing has been become very popular with time. This is an effort to look into some of the benefits that can be directly achieved by outsourcing ERP Implementations.
1. Buy Expertise
ERP Systems are meant to assist in running of the day-to-day business. Also it is suppose to help the management in terms of reporting [...]

The ‘RIGHT’ Enterprise Product

Selecting the Right ERP Software is a decision that involves several factors in terms of Technology and Services. A right evaluation, and Fit Gap analysis to an optimized software solution can greatly help reduce costs and boost Organizational Efficiency.
The buying organization must consider all the parameters including service, cost and maintenance before taking a decision.
A [...]

ERP-as-a-service (SaaS based ERP Application Delivery)

Understanding SaaS

To first understand what is SaaS, we must begin with its delivery model. In a SaaS model, the ERP application is hosted on the Server of the Application Provider (usually) and the same is located in a secure data center that has the required IT infrastructure like Server Racks, Data Backup Devices, powerful [...]