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Principles of Information Systems (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305971776
Author: Ralph Stair, George Reynolds
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Enterprise system:

  • Enterprise system is a central system to the organizations.
  • It guarantees that information can be shared through all business functions and through all levels of management to maintain the running and managing of a business.
  • An enterprise system is important to individuals and all size organizations.

Enterprise resource planning system (ERP):

An ERP is an integrated programs that manages a business operation for a complete organizations.

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Advice to overcome the challenges:

The finest way to guarantee that the ERP implementation may goe...

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Most significant challenges associated with the implementation of an enterprise system:

Selection problem:

Many number of ERP system is presented in the market; so, there may be a confusion in selecting the system.

Technology problem:

If the system is not properly implemented, it creates performance issue which will decrease the business profit.

Data quality problem:

If the ERP system is implemented in an organization, there is a need to data restoration.

  • While importing the legacy files into the new system, data loss may occur. These leads to failure of business.
  • So, data quality is important in the ERP system.

Business change:

ERP system changes the working model, it decreases the manual work and increases the system work.

  • The employee should work accordingly and should accept and adopt to the new changes...

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