The Death of the ERP Myth

by Jim Highsmith, William M. Ulrich, The Cutter Business Technology Council

The image of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has been badly tarnished. While some companies have realized significant benefits from ERP, those organizations that thought ERP was a silver bullet that would forever slay the rising costs and frustrations of IT have been greatly disappointed. The era of large, monolithic, everything-from-one-vendor systems -- the sales strategy of many ERP vendors in the past (and some still today) -- is over. This one-size-fits-all approach will be replaced with a three-pronged strategy: targeted best-of-breed applications, continuous legacy transformation, and systematic integration.

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The Death of the ERP Myth September 2002