2013 Opinion: Warren Muir discusses his top tips for mitigating risk when choosing and implementing a new ERP system… Enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations continue to be regarded as a high-risk undertaking by most companies. Ten years ago, purchasing and implementing an ERP system was a complex issue and this hasn’t changed. If anything, it has [...]
Read MoreA growing number of ERP users are seizing scheduled technology refreshes as an opportunity to consider moving workloads onto virtual servers… Server virtualisation is finally considered mature and secure enough for a growing number of enterprises to take the plunge with their ERP workloads. In the past mission-critical systems such as ERP have generally been [...]
Read MoreA rigorous business case establishes a foundation for discovering the potential benefits of a new technology solution… Failed IT projects frequently hit the headlines and can even be so disastrous that the vendor is banned from replying to future tenders, as happened to IBM at the hands of the Queensland Government this year. But, as [...]
Read MoreERP implementations are seldom straight forward but here is how to avoid underestimating the ERP project challenges… Budget and schedule slippages seem to be an endemic problem across all types of ERP implementation. A report last year by Panorama Consulting Solutions surveyed 172 companies of all sizes and showed that 53 percent of their ERP [...]
Read MoreFailed ERP projects litter business history books the world over. Here Sourya Biswas captures some of the lessons that time has taught those who have succeeded in getting their companies into the annals of IT infamy… You’ve made the decision to implement an ERP system in your organization and now you need to know how to get [...]
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