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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is defined as the ability to deliver an integrated suite of business applications. ERP tools share a common process and data model, covering broad and deep operational end-to-end processes. ERP applications automate and support a range of administrative and operational business processes across multiple industries, including line of business, customer-facing, administrative and the asset management aspects of an enterprise.

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We are starting our first Enterprise Architecture practice. What would those that have EA in place, or have recently launched EA, found to be the most beneficial EA services you provide to help sell EA to the enterprise and gain support?

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Has remote working impacted capacity planning?

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Does your IT team or your HR team absorb to costs of HR technology?

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A recent research from ASUG (American SAP User Group) and Pillir showed that 91% of enterprises are using custom code with up to 50% of their core/essential business processes currently running using custom code that interfaces with SAP. If you look at your company's yearly budget spent on maintaining your MOST valuable custom business processes, what percentage of the IT budget is allocated to maintaining those custom apps (Please consider all costs like development, maintenance, support packs, enhancement, upgrades etc.)

0%9%

1-10%38%

11-25%33%

25-40%12%

40-50%4%

More than 50%2%

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What does it typically cost a large retail company (~$15B turnover pa) to implement an ERP solution (& ongoing run estimates)?

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My organization is doing an ERP implementation. We are not mature in the data governance space. In the past three years we have tried to implement Ataccama and Alation to kick-start a data governance initiative. For a variety of reasons, both attempts failed. Does anyone have a recommendation for a data catalog tool other than Excel? The reason we are considering a data catalog is because in the ERP implementation, some data element nomenclature and taxonomies will be changing. We think a data catalog might increase the chances that the implementation teams are not talking past one another when they are collaborating.

If you have recently licensed an ERP, which vendor did you choose? What system integrator are using? Did you use a consultant to help you decide? If so, what consulting firm did you use?

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Does anyone have any experience implementing an Electronic Medical Record at national level across multiple health care institutions ? What strategy did you adopt? How did you approach the requirement gathering, design, and implementation processes? What were the main challenges you experienced?

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We are a global company looking to implement SAP RISE, with entities in numerous markets (15+). SAP are suggesting a regional approach. Three separate RISE Instances to match our regions. However, if we are trying to ensure consistency in processes globally, is there not a way to have a single Global instance of SAP RISE? So we can benefit from the user scale in the global business, or does local data regulations / bank integrations get in the way of achieving that?

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We are a medium sized chemical manufacturing company divided into several business units. One of our business units has a 50 user process manufacturing ERP system. We are in the middle of negotiating our renewal for the software. I am interested in what others are seeing in terms of percentage increases for your annual renewals on a 3 year term.

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Top challenges to using Open-source for product and application development? Flexibility, cost, control are some of the factors that have favored open source usage across tech segments. However, there are still headwinds. What will help drive higher levels of open source usage in your organization?

Limited Talent29%

Unclear Roadmap40%

Frequent Releases46%

Too many options to pick from36%

License Models26%

Long Term Support23%

Others (Write a comment)1%

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In the next 6 months, which will your company do?

Invest more in eCommerce33%

Maintain the current investment in eCommerce61%

Invest less in eCommerce5%

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We are looking to move one of ERP applications from on premises to SaaS. What are you all seeing in terms of cost percentage increases to move to a cloud based ERP solution with the same vendor as the on premises system?

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Getting ready to take the plunge into low code/no code arena with Creatio. We don't have a large development team and we must execute quick turn wins for smaller operational projects working along side user areas. Would welcome any advice on the platform or your experiences.

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Looking to connect and hear feedback from organizations that have recently implemented an enterprise scaled solution for financial consolidation and reporting. We are looking at Oracle Cloud Fusion Financial Apps and/or EPM and MS D365 Finance (not considering SCM at this time). Do you have experiences to share with either Oracle or MS? What advice would you give?

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We are a midsized manufacturing company. We are about to implement a new ERP system. The SI will have their PM. We have an internal project manager assigned to this project. He is a manufacturing PM. He's never PM'd for IT or ERP. I've discussed this with an ERP advisory service. They say this isn't the best way to guarantee success. They suggest hiring their ERP PM consultant to be our lead PM. They would train our internal PM and by the end of phase 1 (1 year), our internal PM would be able to do the full ERP PM role. The consultant is expensive, but trustworthy. I could hire an ERP PM for much less. Then I have to build a business case for the addition of their role. If I do proceed with hiring an ERP PM, I'd want them to have EA experience. Then they could take on the role of managing the enhancement queues and updates. I'd love it if you'd explain the importance of ERP specific project management to the overall project. Also, we are debating where OCM should come from. Purchased from the SI or hiring an OCM company because we are moving from green screen to web browser (huge change). Any suggestions for success on OCM would be greatly appreciated.

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