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Unit 10: ERP Future Directions

10.12 review Questions notes

1. Explain why the ERP vendors are trying to improve their products and offering.

2. Explain faster implementation methodologies used in ERP implementation.
3. Write a short note on OLAP.
4. Which are the new markets and channels explained by ERP vendors?
5. Write a short note on Convergence on ‘Windows NT’.
6. What is the impact of internet and www on the ERP products?

7. Write a short note on web enabling the software.
8. ‘Business Model 4 BAPI’. Write short notes.
9. Write a note of faster implementation methodologies?
10. What do you mean by new business segment?

answers: self assessment

1. Fast-forward

2. Business Application Programming Interfaces
3. Windows NT
4. comprehensive suites
5. True

6. True
7. False
8. True
9. True
10. False

10.13 further readings

Books Alexis Leon, ERP Demystified 2/E, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.
Alexis Leon, Enterprise Resource Planning, Tata McGraw Hill, 2009.

Bhatnagar, S.C. and K.V. Ramani, Computers and Information Management, Prentice
Hall of India Private Ltd, New Delhi, 1991.
Daniel E. O’Leary, ERP Systems: Systems, Life Cycle, E-commerce, and Risk,
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Ellen Monk, Bret Wagner, Concepts in Enterprise Resource Planning, Course
Technology, Second Edition, 2005

Hanson, J.J., “Successful ERP Implementations Go Far Beyond Software,” San
Diego Business Journal (5 July 2004).

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