This infographic sponsored by Microsoft discusses the productivity and financial benefits that companies can realize from implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. It claims that ERP can increase organizational productivity and generate additional revenue per employee of $170 annually on average. It also asserts that ERP helps make better decisions, mitigate risks, reduce costs by an average of 11%, increase speed to market and annual returns by 17%, and increase a 1,000-employee company's additional annual revenue by $220,000. The infographic promotes optimizing ERP systems by moving them to the cloud to reduce downtime by 98% and increase performance, extending ERP with mobility to boost mobile user productivity by 70-80%, and fully integrating ERP

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Productivity Benefits of ERP:
Build Business Success
Work more
productively
Increase
organizational
productivity and
generate an additional:
Make better
decisions
Mitigate risk of errors
and failure and reduce
operational costs by
an average of:
Be more agile
Increase speed
to market
and increase
annual
returns by:
Increase revenue
For a 1,000-employee
company, an
integrated ERP
solution could mean
an additional:
Optimizing ERP:
Maximize the Value
Move It to the Cloud
Reduce unplanned
application
downtime by:
Increase application
performance by:
Maximize Usage
with Mobility
Extending ERP to mobile
users increases mobile-user
productivity by:
Integrate Fully
with Other Apps
…when compared to companies using non-integrated ERP
Evaluating ERP Systems:
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Fast deployment
options
Organizations with
more agile deployment
can reduce
implementation
costs by:
Intuitive easy-to-use
interface
ERP solutions that look
and feel more like
consumer applications
can reduce training time
and costs by over:
Interconnectivity with
other productivity apps
Gives an advantage to
businesses by reducing
operational costs by:
Quick-change
configuration
Dashboards for any
and all devices – puts
actionable financial
data in the hands of
users in real time
instead of 7-10 days
after closing
System Must-Haves
Advantage in
increasing revenue
$170PER EMPLOYEE
ANNUALLY
$1,141
98%
17%
70% 80%
13%
10%
$220
10-200%
ANNUAL REVENUE
PER EMPLOYEE
$2,628PER EMPLOYEE
$3.8MIN REVENUE
Gaining the
ERPEdge
...when compared to companies not using any or an ineffective ERP system
Increased adoption
and usage of ERP
systems adds value per
employee of about: