ERP implementation requires lots of spadework. Consider a big organization with fully developed and established legacy systems. Organization has been running its businesses for so many years with fully developed and matured legacy systems. Now with scaling up of operations and a need to achieve better harmonization amongst various departments of organization, management has deemed [...]
Companies very often publicize only the successful ERP implementation cases. But those of us who have been in to studying and implementing ERP are quite well aware that in lot many cases ERP implementation has had rough travails. The actual costs have far exceeded initial budgets. But it has nothing to do with ERP having [...]
There are many organizations who are still skeptical of implementing ERP. Believe me, I am talking about organizations which are big and have very high turnovers and complex operations. Some of these organizations are still running with heterogeneous complex legacy systems with limited or no integration. And then these organizations spends huge resources on reconciling [...]
Project is a time bound activity and involves resources like manpower, materials and time. No two projects are exactly identical. Variations occur in form of layout, manpower, time constraints and resources. Project Management requirement also stems from the complexity, magnitude and number of agencies involved in to the jobs.
As I write, TechCrunch has just posted updates on Cloud Computing roundtable. There have been presentations by industry bigwigs over future of the Cloud. Everybody out there has gone ballistic over the future of Clouds. Some were announcing paradigm shift in the way computing shall be done in future.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation requires lots of spadework before actual implementation. ERP consultants have us believe that about 50% work in ERP implementation is not related with software and computers.
ERP software can be developed and implemented bit by bit by organization’s own IT team with help and support from service providers. ERP software from knwon service providers are too expensive as of now.
Enterprise Resource Planning brings about major changes in working of an organization. There have been many instances where organizations have benefited from ERP roll outs. ERP brings with them best practices in each of the referred discipline. But failure or success in ERP implementation depends upon preparedness of that very organization. Over the years it [...]
