Management Briefings

• Market Overview | Part 2 | Part 3
  Our latest research reveals integration problems as companies add extra layers on top of their ERP packages. Pat Sweet reports.

• Customer Management | Part 2
  Customer management software is a recent, but crucial, addition to the usual enterprise software suite, says Andrew Denton of CHP Consulting.

• Round Table | Part 2 | Part 3
  Dennis Keeling of BASDA, David Manning from Oliver Wight Europe, Nick Cook from AnitePS Consulting, Andrew Ball from Frost & Sullivan and Blair Eldridge of EDS debate the future shape of the enterprise software market.

• E-Business Issues | Part 2
  Should companies build their e-business infrastructure under the auspices of their existing enterprise software vendor, or independently? IBM’s Mark Kerr reports.

• Best of Breed Software | Part 2
  Tim Phillips of Mi highlights the problems in integrating new best of breed enterprise applications.

• Information Access | Part 2
  Bill Clough of IDC shows how companies can face up to escalating user demand for access to the data held in their enterprise packages.

• Global Integration | Part 2
  Des Quinn and Mark Hankins of Partners for Change question whether multinationals should impose one global ERP package on their subsidiaries.

• Market News | Part 2
  Sarah Underwood analyses recent events in the IT services industry.

• Expert Opinion
  George Elkington of Deloitte Consulting shows how ERP implementations can be speeded up.