Enterprise Applications

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 [...]

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 [...]

Current Challenges in ERP Implementation

Complexity of ERP Implementations in Current times

ERP implementations are today have become increasingly complex. Adopting new operating models, Mergers and Acquisitions are perhaps reasons which add to this complexity in implementation. An good example to take would be system requirements of cross-enterprise collaboration to have a ‘globally lean’ organization. With the advent of globalization [...]

Choosing the Right ERP Vendor

Criteria involved in choosing the right enterprise vendor can vary across organizations. However, below are three factors that can prove helpful in making a good choice.
Vendor Credibility
Vendor background, number of years in market, vendor client list, success stories, brand name etc. should be researched by the Buyer to have an idea of the market reputation [...]

How to Prepare a RFI

This a short writing on submitting a RFI for Technology Purchase the right way. Also some common mistakes while shortlisting vendors are discussed.

Enhanced Company Profile – ERP Deals.

We have started with registrations at ERP Deals.com, Its exciting to see that, after a great brooding and thinking over how do we represent the companies, and re-enforce their brand, we have come up with nearly perfect portfolio.
We have gone through the survey results on what Buyers would like to know about vendors, before making [...]