Re: Is ERP dead?

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >  Somehow I don't see the value in an ERP package for an established company.
> >  If you have decent software that does what a package will do, chances are
> it
> >  will work better for you than an ERP package and will be easier to extend.
> >  Of course, "decent software" is the part that's questionable.  When I read
> >  the stories in the trade magazines about moves to ERP or whatever the
> flavor
> >  of the month is, over and over again, the problem seems to be badly written
> >  existing software.  The articles never deal with how the companies decided
> >  to go with the package rather than fixing what they had.  I often wonder
> >  whether it would have been better to do it in house.  Certainly, a lot of
> >  the obvious blood baths reported in the magazines as unqualified successes
> >  don't give me a lot of confidence in the package alternative.


i know of several installations where the mis person in charge wanted
jde so they could put jde experience on their resume.  and/or wanted to
get the experience, so they could launch their consulting career.

nj
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