Evolution of ERPs and lack of integration of information systems

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Question 1

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Question 2

What importance could you assign to the research factor: ERP project management ?

The aim of our study is to analyze the relationship between the ERP project management (reliable or unreliable) and the lack of integration of information system (which are composed, at least, of one ERP).

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Question 3

What importance could you assign to the research factor: Lack of integration of information systems ?

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Question 4

What importance could you assign to the research factor: Evolution of ERP systems ?

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Question 5

What importance could you assign to the research factor: Interoperability of ERP ?

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Question 6

What importance could you assign to the research factor: Total dependency on the ERP vendor ?

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Question 7

What importance could you assign to the research factor: Economic crisis and competitiveness of firms ?

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Question 8

What importance could you assign to the research factor: Complexity of ERP ?

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Question 9

What importance could you assign to the research factor: Evolution strategy of legacy systems ?

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Question 10

What importance could you assign to the research factor: Evolution strategy of ERP vendors ?

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Question 11

The information system in your firm

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Question 12

The information system, in your firm, is composed of

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Question 13

The information system, in your firm, is fully integrated (integration rate 100%)

By integration rate of information system, we mean the reliability of integration, within the framework of the information system, between the ERP and other subsystems (other ERPs, in-house developed systems, applications, software...). However if the ERP is the only component of your information system, in this case this rate could be evaluated as fully integrated if the ERP works efficiently without any issues between its different modules.

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Question 14

How many software vendors (ERP, software, applications, best of breed…) do you have within the framework of your information system?

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Question 15

The ERP in your information system is modular: your firm was (is) not forced to buy all modules (whole package). Only the desired modules have been bought and implemented

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Question 16

Your firm prefers to be independent from only one ERP vendor (it is better to buy from several vendors (software, ERPs, best of breed'…)

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Question 17

In the future, ERP vendors should not allow to clients to decide whether they want to buy only a part (few or some modules) or the whole ERP package (all modules). The client must buy the entire package. Consequently, the client will be totally dependent on the ERP vendor

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Which modules, of ERP, you have implemented ?

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Question 19

For new users needs, currently or in the future, do you plan or do you envision to

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Question 20

Some modules, of your ERP, have not been (or will not be) selected and implemented because

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Question 21

There is a need for a complementary system (modules, subsystems, applications, best of breed...) to overcome the limitations of your ERP system (one ERP vendor is not able to satisfy all your users' needs)

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Question 22

The ERP system

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Question 23

In the future, a methodology for ERP system implementation, based on best practices, would not be necessary to improve and optimize the ERP project management

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Question 24

The ERP project management was (is)

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Question 25

The customization and the implementation of your ERP was (is) easy and simple ?

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Question 26

In the future the evolution of ERP systems must not reduce the ERP complexity

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Question 27

The ERP package, in your information system, was (is) complex

The question is not about the complexity of the ERP project management but rather about the complexity of the ERP package itself as a product.

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Question 28

The use and the learning of the ERP package, in your information system, were (are) very difficult

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Question 29

The ERP package, in your information system, has a user-friendly interface and operations

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Question 30

In the future, ERP vendors will not need to improve the interoperability of the ERP in order to facilitate its integration with other subsystems.

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Question 31

The ERP package has been easily integrated with other subsystems within the framework of your information systems

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Question 32

The integration of your information system is performed by combining an ERP package and additional software bridges (EAI platform, XML, API, ESB, interfaces, interoperable solutions...)

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Question 33

What kind of subsystems do you have in your information system?

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Question 34

In the future the evolution of ERP systems must not take into account the evolution strategy of your legacy system in a manner that allows your firm to choose and to drive a given evolution strategy of information system (urbanization or total overhaul) depending on the state of your existing system (extremely complex, complex or simple)

- Urbanization: evolving the information system by successive stepwise stages (by keeping the part of the legacy systems that is functional and operational);
- Total overhaul: whole replacement of all legacy systems with another at one time. It involves making a clean sweep in order to completely replace the existing systems by a new information system.

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Question 35

What was (is) your evolution strategy of legacy systems?

- Urbanization: evolving the information system by successive stepwise stages (by keeping the part of the legacy systems that is functional and operational);
- Total overhaul: whole replacement of all legacy systems with another at one time. It involves making a clean sweep in order to completely replace the existing systems by a new information system.

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Question 36

Was (is) your ERP implementation performing on?

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Question 37

The upgrading of your ERP (evolution, improvement and adding new modules) will be easy to perform

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Question 38

Your ERP vendor develops and upgrades permanently its ERP package in order to take into account recent modules like CRM, SRM, SCM, BI, e-business, PLM...

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Question 39

In the future the evolution strategy of ERP vendors must not enlarge, by developing all necessary modules for the new user needs, the functional scope of the ERP

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Question 40

In the future, the evolution of ERP systems must not take into account the competitiveness of your firm (an expensive TCO of an ERP cannot be an obstacle which prevents your firm to acquire an ERP system and therefore cannot reduce your ROI)

- "Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)";
- "Return On Investment (ROI)".

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Question 41

Your ERP reduces costs and improves overall productivity, competitiveness and ROI

"Return On Investment (ROI)".

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