Linda Eiland Clark, Intelligent Enterprise Magazine, October, 2000. Creating a knowledge transfer framework for your ERP implementation can mean the difference between losing and leveraging your most valuable asset.

This white paper explores the importance of Automated Data Collection and how it can improve an ERP that is already in place. PDF format.

The globalized, digital economy is placing new demands on enterprises to become faster and more efficient at the management of information, even while the enterprise becomes ever more extended and complex. EDS sponsored article.

Samuel Greengard, Business Finance Magazine, November, 2000. There are substantial advantages to outsourcing enterprise applications, including ERP software and this article discusses the benefits.

Wayne D. Bennett, CIO Magazine, May 15, 2000. Contractual tips for new entrants in the ERP game.

Janet Gould, HP World. How attention to hardware "Smarts" pays off.

Malcolm Wheatley, CIO Magazine June 1, 2000. As ERP implementations falter and fail, many people think the answer is more training. They're wrong.

Thomas Davenport, Network World, February, 28, 2000. Over the past decade, two major innovations have transformed the way companies build and operate information systems: the Internet and its associated e-commerce technologies, and enterprise resource planning systems.

Philip Diehl, June 2000, Darwin Magazine. The U.S. Mint's Philip Diehl found that overseeing an enterprisewide systems project is no easy task. Especially when you've got a deadline you can't afford to miss.

Next-Generation E-Business. XML adoption survey. August 15, 2000.

What is ERP? The ABCs of ERP. Compiled from reports by Christopher Koch, Derek Slater and E. Baatz

CIO article by Lee Pender concerning how information from the back end of ERP doesn't always make it into e-commerce applications.

Roberto Michel, in Manufacturing Systems March 2000, provides information on manufacturers pursuing diverse strategies for adding CRM, APS, business intelligence functions to ERP backbones.

By Derek Slater. Getting to the truly integrated enterprise should not be a piecemeal journey. You've got to have a vision of where you're going in order to get there.

This white paper explains the difference between Supply Chain Planning(SCP) systems and ERP systems and then argues that threaded simultaneous SCP systems allow a company to better serve customers by organizing better and coordinating internal and partner activities.

Derek Slater, CNN, May 28, 1999. Discusses ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning, a software system that aims to serve as a backbone for your whole business (from CIO).