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The Future of ERP
Introduction

Open-source CRM and ERP: New kids on the cloud
Tweakable enterprise applications that can be provisioned quickly, and at relatively low cost, is a proposition some IT shops are finding unbeatable.

The Problem with Mature ERP Systems
ERP systems tend to outlast the IT professionals who implement them, causing headaches for the CIOs who are subsequently brought it to integrate and upgrade them -- and manage the business side's changing expectations.

Why ERP Is Still So Hard
Steve Berg knows what intense pain feels like: The man has been Tasered, in fact-not because he ran afoul of the law, but as VP of IT at Taser International he's partaken in a corporate rite of passage. "It's the worst five seconds of your life," he says. "You cannot move."

How to Win CFO Friends and Influence Business People
Conventional wisdom and decades' worth of IT project failures and less-than-desirable outcomes tell us that every tech-related investment-from a massive SAP ERP rollout to a small Salesforce.com SaaS CRM deployment-comes with some amount of risk.

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