Data warehousing and the Internet's impact on ERP

Advances in data warehousing and Internet technology have spurred ERP development, but these systems still need some improvements. The information era has dramatically changed the business environment, and keen competition puts tremendous demands on companies to reduce total cost and maximize return on investment. This is why more businesses are seeing systems for enterprise resource planning (ERP) as key to remaining competitive. To keep pace, ERP systems themselves have undergone considerable change in the past 10 years (1990-2000). To help your organization make the right ERP choices, it is helpful to know how two key technologies: data warehousing and the Internet, are transforming these complex systems.