Description
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) refers to large commercial software packages that promise a seamless integration of information flow through an organization by combining various sources of information into a single software application and a single database. The outcome of ERP itself is still a mystery, but the trends and issues it has created will be the enigma that future generations will have to solve. Traditionally, separate units were created within an organization to carry out various tasks, and these functional areas would create their own information systems thereby giving rise to systems that were not integrated.
ERP strives to provide a solution to these problems. Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions and Management examines the issues that need to be further studied and better understood to ensure successful implementation and deployment of ERP systems.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Fiona Nah (Ed.)
Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah is an Assistant Professor of Management Information
Systems at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Previously, she was a member of
the faculty at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. in Management Information
Systems from the University of British Columbia. She is currently serving on the
editorial boards of Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of
Database Management, Journal of Global Information Management, and
Annals of Cases on Information Technology. She has published in journals such
as Communications of the ACM, Journal of Information Technology, Journal
of Information Technology Cases and Applications, Journal of Computer
Information Systems, Journal of Software Maintenance, Business Process
Management Journal, and Simulation and Gaming. One of her recent works
titled, “SAP Implementation at the University of Nebraska,” that was published in
the Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications (Volume 2,
Number 1, March 2000), presents the issues and challenges faced by the University
of Nebraska in its implementation of SAP. Currently, she is looking at researching
the organizational and technical issues in implementations of enterprise resource
planning.