Problems during the installation of an enterprise resource planning system at an Australia-based company have led to an estimated cost overrun of $21 million — and a claim against the software vendor, ...

"Glitches in Payroll System Spark Furor" ... "City Fires Vendor Over ERP Implementation Problems" ... "City's Financial System Upgrade Runs Into Problems" ... "County Will Try Again to Modernize ...

Arizona State University's deployment of Oracle ERP is challenging important and fundamental assumptions about how complex software systems should be implemented. ERP implementations are often ...

While some talk about the Wild West of software implementation, it’s time to put some specificity around what’s going wrong out there. Unfortunately, a lot of the pain starts before a deal is even ...

New research on the success of ERP implementations reveals mixed results. Although respondents are satisfied with their choice of software, the survey shows most ERP projects run over budget and ...

Want to get a good argument going in IT circles? Ask someone about the effectiveness and return on investment of enterprise resource planning software--programs designed to integrate the scattered ...

There’s a growing movement underway to rid the business world of the acronym ERP. For real. In fact, executives at SAP—the ones who practically invented the concept and related terminology—are among ...

What if I told you that your next enterprise software project had only a 7 percent chance of coming in on time, would more than likely cost more than what you estimated, and would very likely deliver ...

When outside training consultants assess ERP implementations already in progress, they act very much like doctors. First they ask the patients (in this case the CIO, project teams, HR and training ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In my experience, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are among the most substantial ...