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ERP leads fight against information overload: Cliff Mills, NCC Research (Oct 07)    
For the past two decades, businesses have sought to gain control over their plethora of information systems and integrate them in order to provide a single consistent view of business operations, processes and information. During this time, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems emerged as the panacea to define how an organisation could integrate all of its data and processes into one unified system. Originally a manufacturing term, ERP quickly became established as the acronym for enterprise-wide software systems designed to consistently manage an organisation’s data. Since then there have been many ups and downs and a few heartaches but it is fair to say that if we look at the objectives of ERP, they still hold true. Organisations still want their data and processes to operate in an integrated way; they still want consistency within those processes; and most importantly they want value from those systems, both in terms of reduced cost of operation and in terms of better information on which businesses can make informed decisions.
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Is this the future?: Malcolm Hunt, Greyscale (October 2007)    
Enterprise architecture (EA) is a method for defining an organisation’s processes, information systems, people and units in a way that aligns them with the company’s core goals and strategic direction. Some commentators believe integration between EA and ERP software could herald an era of improved benefit delivery for ERP implementations – but how feasible is this? The key advantage of combining these two methodologies is that it gives companies the chance to approach their ERP design from a strategic, enterprise-wide business process perspective. When this is done, companies can gain significant benefits, such as: reducing the time to implementation, by more than 50%; guaranteeing improvements and savings are achieved; and eliminating post-implementation glitches. Ever since the early days of ERP, I’ve spent time using, implementing and trouble-shooting a variety of systems – and much of what I’ve seen reinforces the findings from numerous surveys, that sadly the majority of ERP implementations still deliver little or no measurable benefit.
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