This white paper discusses enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems usability, with special attention to allowing you to consider usability as a criterion in your enterprise application selection process. 

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. 

Learn twelve criteria to help you identify and select an ERP solution that fits your business needs. Find the right ERP provider that will help you implement quickly and achieve business objectives. 

Read this white paper to find out why 38% of businesses surveyed in 2011 had replaced their ERP solutions and find criteria for determining if and when you should upgrade or migrate to new software. Also, find tips on making a business case for an investment as well as selection criteria for choosing ERP that will meet your business needs. 

This document reviews actions that IT managers can take to improve overall server performance within their IT environment, and discusses how to go about selecting servers for large-scale virtualized environments. 

Read this white paper to learn about a data analytics platform that can access, harness and extract information quickly. 

Use this expert resource as a guide to understanding which enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are best suited to fit your needs and why the biggest vendors might not always be the best option. Also find six steps for evaluating and selecting your ERP platform. 

There are lots enterprise resource planning (ERP) options and services that can help smaller businesses take advantage of the benefits of ERP while minimizing the risk of a system implementation. Read more inside to compare the performance results of SMBs with ERP to SMBs without ERP and discover exactly how beneficial the system can be. 

Watch this brief video to learn about how one manufacturing company leveraged enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to improve their process, operational, and overall business efficiency. 

<p>Read this white paper to learn how medical manufacturers are using enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to reduce the costs of their operations as well as justify current prices to insurers based on success rates and patient value.</p> 

This e-book will help you discover and implement the best enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for your manufacturing organization. Read this now and gain 4 tips for avoiding pitfalls in the ERP upgrade process, expert advice on the entire process, insight into SaaS versus on-premises options, 7 tips for a successful implementation and more. 

<div> <div> <p>Read this e-guide to gain an in-depth overview of SAP Business ByDesign including a case study on how a Dow subsidiary is leveraging this low cost Software as a Service (SaaS) ERP deployment model. Discover why more companies are turning to SaaS platforms as they design a more-flexible two-tier ERP strategy.</p> </div> </div> 

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.