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How to Evaluate Your Vendor's ERP Strategy
14 August 2009
 
Jeff Woods   Christian Hestermann  

Most enterprises will be tied to their ERP vendors for more than 10 years. Therefore, it pays to make a fully informed decision about those vendors, beyond just functional fit, before you implement or engage in an expansion of your ERP project.





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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Analysis
    • 1.0 How to Use These Evaluation Criteria
    • 2.0 Components of ERP Evaluation
      • 2.1 Functional ERP Components and Evaluation
      • 2.2 ERP Vendor Strategy Evaluation
    • 3.0 Evaluation Criteria
      • 3.1 Business Functionality Support
      • 3.2 Technology Strategy
      • 3.3 Life Cycle Strategy
      • 3.4 Vendor Business Model
  • Recommended Reading
Tables
Table 1.
Evaluating ERP Functional Depth
Table 2.
Evaluating ERP Functional Breadth
Table 3.
Evaluating ERP Long-Tail Functionality Strategies
Table 4.
Evaluating the Level of Application Suite and Process Integrity
Table 5.
Evaluating ERP Support for Continuous Innovation, Continuous Improvement and Business-Oriented Application Strategies
Table 6.
Evaluating ERP Ability to Support User-Specific and Enterprise-Specific Processes
Table 7.
Evaluating ERP Ability to Support Global-Scale Competitiveness
Table 8.
Evaluating ERP Support for Information Users
Table 9.
Evaluating ERP Vendors' Responsiveness to Business Innovation
Table 10.
Evaluating ERP Strategies for Delivering Model-Driven Packaged Applications
Table 11.
Evaluating ERP Strategies for Embedded Analytics
Table 12.
Evaluating ERP Support for Social Software
Table 13.
Evaluating ERP Support for Mobile Technologies
Table 14.
Evaluating an ERP Strategy for Modular Independence
Table 15.
Evaluating ERP Strategy for Cloud Technologies
Table 16.
Evaluating ERP Support for Business Networks
Table 17.
Evaluating Long-Term TCO of ERP
Table 18.
Evaluating Support Offerings of ERP Vendors
Table 19.
Evaluating ERP Services and Ecosystem
Table 20.
Evaluating an ERP Vendor's Portfolio Strategy




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