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Notes 6. How Social Media revolution forced companies to integrate social media into their ERP
applications and software? Explain.
7. Describe the concept of GAP analysis in ERP implementation.

8. What is the use of testing while implementing ERP? Explain.
9. If ERP is implemented successfully, the company automatically becomes world class in
terms of its practices. Comment.

10. Discuss the growth of Web-enabling software in the evolution of ERP.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. ERP implementation 2. ERP implementation
3. Project planning 4. Gap Analysis
5. Testing 6. True
7. False 8. False

9. True 10. True
11. False 12. True
13. True 14. False

15. False
11.7 Further Readings

Books Harwood, Stephen. (2003). ERP: The Implementation Cycle, Butterworth-
Heinemann.
Madu, Christian N.(2005). ERP and Supply Chain Management, Chi Publishers
Inc.
O’Leary, Daniel E. (2000). Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Systems, Life
Cycle, Electronic Commerce, and Risk, Cambridge University Press.
Venkitakrishnan, N.K. (2004). Enterprise Resource Planning: Concepts and Practice,
PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

Online links http://www.erppandit.com/erp-implementation-lifecycle.html
http://dtpr.lib.athabascau.ca/action/download.php?filename=scis-07/open/
Kukreja%20Vikas.pdf
http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/erp/top-ten-erp-trends.html
http://community.dynamics.com/product/nav/navnontechnical/b/
erpsoftwareblog/archive/2012/06/04/current-erp-trends-what-you-need-to-
know-about-the-cloud.aspx

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