In the past few years many organizations have initiated enterprise-wide/ERP (enterprise resource planning) projects using such packages as SAP, Peoplesoft
and Oracle. These projects often represent the single
largest investment in an information systems (IS)
project in the histories of these companies and, in many
cases, the largest single investment in any corporatewide project.
These enterprise-wide/ERP projects bring about
a host of new questions because they represent a
new type of management challenge. The management
approaches for these projects may be altogether different from the managerial approaches for traditional
management information systems (MIS) projects.
Some of these questions and issues are as follows.