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  • How to Understand The Fake Integration Benefits for ERP

    ByPrimary Researcher

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    Here are two of the common scenarios in which companies that implemented ERP found themselves:
    Scenario 1: When Companies Replaced All Pre-Existing Systems with ERP
    In rare cases, companies eventually replaced every one of their existing systems with ERP, representing a perfect match with what the ERP salespeople proposed.

    Some companies that followed this approach paid far more than they had anticipated customizing the ERP application to replicate part of their current solutions.
    Some companies that followed this approach lost functionality and wished they had not gone 100 percent ERP, but could not go back once …

  • How to Understand The Logic Used to Sell ERP Systems

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    ERP systems were sold based on things that never came true.
    Find out what were the false logics used to sell ERP systems.

    Introduction
    Many of the arguments habitually made in favor of ERP are, in fact, nothing more than logical fallacies. Because of this, it is essential to review the definition of “logical fallacies.” Proponents of ERP use several logical fallacies in the quotations used throughout this book, and when they occur, I will be referring to these proponents by their official names. It is quite surprising how many ERP proponents’ quotations fall into one or more …

  • The History of ERP Systems

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … provide advice about improving ERP implementations—yet never do the authors question the benefits of ERP. The influence of ERP has been so great and has so strongly impacted the structure of the enterprise software market (in addition to impacting the decisions that are made by companies outside decisions about ERP itself), that ERP as a topic really deserves a comprehensive written history. What follows is not that comprehensive history by any means, but enough of a background to support the analysis presented in the following chapters.
    What is ERP?
    Conceptually, ERP is a combined set of modules that share …

  • How to Understand Why SAP ERP is Unquestioned

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … held several false assumptions regarding the benefits of ERP myself; I had never analyzed the issue carefully and had been fed a steady stream of misinformation about ERP by biased parties and those who repeated the message they had heard from others. However, after I read the academic research on ERP, I was appalled to find unsubstantiated statements about ERP made repeatedly and routinely by individuals who presented themselves in their articles as knowing something about the ERP market. Of all the technologies I have researched, the coverage of ERP that I found was probably the worst journalism I have …

  • How to Understand The Multi Billion Dollar TCO Analysis Failure of ERP

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    ERP systems have a negative ROI, which is in part due to their high TCO.
    The article explains why the TCO for ERP systems were never performed.

    Introduction
    In the field of enterprise software, one of the most amazing stories of the past several decades is the mass purchasing of ERP systems—purchases made without the customers searching for evidence that ERP systems are good investments. If they had looked, they would have found that the logic presented to sell ERP systems had no evidence to support it. In the early phase of ERP’s adoption, the excuse …

  • Is SAP ERP Good Because it Won Against Other Options?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    The concept is sometimes promoted because SAP ERP is popular, it must lead to good outcomes for customers.
    What were the true reasons for SAP ERP‘s popularity?

    Introduction to SAP ERP Being Popular as an Argument
    We recently found this quote on ECC regarding its popularity.
    See our references for this article and related articles at this link.
    “R/3 in its days – before SAP had the dominant market position it has today – did win against most of the options on the market so it had some merit. ”
    How SAP Sold Out Customers to Corrupt Consulting Firms …

  • Is SAP's ERP System Innovative?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    SAP’s ERP systems are often presented as a useful application, even innovative, but we question this assertion.
    To understand SAP ERP, it becomes necessary to know how ERP was originally sold.

    Introduction to Whether SAP’s ERP Was Innovative
    SAP claims to be an innovative application. The following quotation presents this.
    Our References for This Article
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    “To be fair to SAP, they have great products and they have not so good products 🙂
    SAP Business Suite …

  • How to Personally Attack Those Who Critique ERP Failures

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    Pro-ERP consultants personally attack ERP critics and point the finger away from the software products when discussing ERP failures.

    Introduction
    ERP implementations have a long money trail behind them. It has come to my attention that there is a strong network of pro-ERP consultants that spend at least some of their time attempting to promote a very strongly pro-ERP overlay or interpretation of ERP failures. Those who disagree with the “ERP friendly” post-mortem analyses of ERP failures are singled out for personal attacks. In this article, we will review a textbook case of this …

  • The Myth of ERP Systems as Out of the Box: Why Functionality Gaps are a Common Problem on ERP Projects

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    Gaps in ERP functionality are a constant source of cost overruns on ERP projects.
    We cover why this is so common and its relationship to the ERP sales process.

    Introduction
    Recently we were asked why gaps are a problem with ERP projects and about gap analysis in ERP. This article will explain the normal ERP sales process and why gaps proliferate, and the issue this brings up to development.
    See our references for this article and related articles at this link.
    The 90% Out of the Box Myth of ERP Vendors and Consulting Firms
    Even though ERP systems …

  • Is a Lack of Business Process Reengineering the Reason ERP Projects Fail?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    We cover a quotation from Panorama on ERP failure, which places most of the blame on business process reengineering.
    This caused us to analyze the history of business process reengineering.

    Introduction
    We were recently reading the report by Panorama on ERP Software Report. While we overall liked the report, we came across a quotation that points in one direction regarding ERP project failure, but we think it points in a different direction. In this article, we will be evaluating whether BPR or business process re-engineering and organizational change management are why ERP projects fail.
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