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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems: a research agenda
Majed Al-Mashari
Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information
Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Keywords
Enterprise resource planning,
Research, Change management
Introduction
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can be regarded as one of the most innovative
The continuing development of developments in information technology (IT) enterprise resource planning of the 1990s. With the growing interest of
(ERP) systems has been many organizations in moving from considered by many researchers functional to process-based IT infrastructure, and practitioners as one of the major IT innovations in this
ERP systems have become one of today’s decade. ERP solutions seek to most widespread IT solutions. According to integrate and streamline business
Heald and Kelly (1998), it was projected that, processes and their associated information and work flows. What in 2002, organizations’ total spending on ERP makes this technology more applications would reach $72.63 billion. What appealing to organizations is its have motivated organizations to implement increasing capability to integrate with the most advanced electronic ERP systems are their integration and standardization capabilities, flexible client/ and mobile commerce technologies. However, research server architecture, and their abilities to in the ERP area is still lacking and drive effective business reengineering and the gap in the ERP literature is management of core and support processes huge. Attempts to fill this gap by
(ComputerWorld, 1998). proposing a novel taxonomy for
ERP research. Also presents the
While ERP systems have traditionally been current status with some major used by capital-intensive industries, such as themes of ERP research relating manufacturing, construction, aerospace, and to ERP adoption, technical defence, they have
Majed Al-Mashari
Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information
Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Keywords
Enterprise resource planning,
Research, Change management
Introduction
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can be regarded as one of the most innovative
The continuing development of developments in information technology (IT) enterprise resource planning of the 1990s. With the growing interest of
(ERP) systems has been many organizations in moving from considered by many researchers functional to process-based IT infrastructure, and practitioners as one of the major IT innovations in this
ERP systems have become one of today’s decade. ERP solutions seek to most widespread IT solutions. According to integrate and streamline business
Heald and Kelly (1998), it was projected that, processes and their associated information and work flows. What in 2002, organizations’ total spending on ERP makes this technology more applications would reach $72.63 billion. What appealing to organizations is its have motivated organizations to implement increasing capability to integrate with the most advanced electronic ERP systems are their integration and standardization capabilities, flexible client/ and mobile commerce technologies. However, research server architecture, and their abilities to in the ERP area is still lacking and drive effective business reengineering and the gap in the ERP literature is management of core and support processes huge. Attempts to fill this gap by
(ComputerWorld, 1998). proposing a novel taxonomy for
ERP research. Also presents the
While ERP systems have traditionally been current status with some major used by capital-intensive industries, such as themes of ERP research relating manufacturing, construction, aerospace, and to ERP adoption, technical defence, they have
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