The Real Story Behind ERP: Separating Fiction From Reality

The first book to tell the unvarnished truth about ERP systems, as well as the first book to perform a meta analysis of the academic research into the benefits of ERP. Many companies were told, and continue to think that ERP systems were critical in their IT infrastructure and to receiving a good ROI. This turns out to more a marketing fiction created by ERP companies than a natural law of enterprise software. In fact most of the statements regarding ERP that are commonly stated with great confidence turn out not to be true when researched. The ROI of ERP systems tells an important story and provides guidance as to how to both choose an ERP system, the alternatives to an ERP system and how to evaluate activating larger areas of functionality within ERP systems.