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Educational Opportunities in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
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- Thomas Pollack, Duquesne University
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| For quite some time, the goal of technology leaders has been to integrate the information systems applications in their organizations. Quite recently, concern about readiness for Y2K and the viability of legacy systems served as an impetus for organizations to assess their information systems and to examine their organizational processes with the underlying objective of improving cross-functional integration.
Many organizations have looked to enterprise resource planning (ERP, frequently with costs exceeding hundreds of millions of dollars, as a means to achieve inter-departmental integration and cross-functional integration of processes. A typical ERP system includes a complete set of applications including order processing, human resource management, manufacturing, finance, accounting, and customer relationship management.
Several ERP vendors have made their products available to educational institutions with very attractive pricing options. This paper will discuss the educational offerings of three major vendors, namely Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP R/3. |
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