How can you tell if your organization is ready for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software implementation? Read this guide for advice on how to know if choosing ERP is the right strategy for you and get answers to the three most important questions you should address before you select an ERP vendor. 

This guide provides expert tips for midmarket organizations interested in investing in ERP. Learn how to sift through the clutter to find the perfect system for your needs. 

In this webcast, Forrester Research, Inc. analyst China Martens discusses the changes in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market and the four emerging key trends in on-premise ERP systems. 

This e-book explores best practices for selecting ERP software. Learn the difference between SaaS and on-premise ERP and ensure a successful implementation strategy. 

In this e-guide, readers will learn more about the basics of ERP and how to reduce maintenance and support costs for these systems. 

This expert guide explores some of the options ERP hosting providers are offering as alternatives to Software as a Service (SaaS). 

Developing a Software as a Service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) request for proposal (RFP) is different from on-premise, requiring more attention to the vendor’s financial viability. In this expert guide, readers will get advice on the right questions to ask when purchasing SaaS ERP. 

During past economic slowdowns companies didn’t plan ahead to safeguard the ability to grow profitably. While the current economic downturn shows a need to reduce costs, many SMMs are also pursuing growth. They’re responding to market pressures and rising costs by targeting IT solutions like industry-specific ERP to set the stage for future growth. 

Selecting a supplier for manufacturing ERP solutions is more important than ever before, due to the increasingly complex set of business processes involved.  Manufacturers now require the ability to share data in real time across all functional areas touching the manufacturing process. This paper takes a fresh look at manufacturing ERP options. 

SaaS start-ups and established vendors are rushing to keep pace with the demand for hosted applications that target the specific needs of industries, as well as the end-to-end application chain. In this e-guide, readers will learn some of the necessary details around SaaS-based enterprise resource planning (ERP). 

A recent Gartner study unexpectedly found that Software as a Service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems reinforce IT governance policies. In this expert guide, learn how SaaS ERP platforms can be customized, are simpler to use than on-premise ERP, and support better IT governance. 

In this ERP Selection Checklist, provided to you through our ERP Decision Center, two experts with broad experience in ERP implementations give their advice on matching business requirements with product features in five key categories: functional fit, integration, business intelligence and reporting formats, deployment model and customizability.