Background : According to Sharda (2015), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) was designed to help large companies manage the fragmentation of information stored in hundreds of individual desktop, department, and business unit computers across the organization. These modules offered the IS department in many large organizations an option for switching from underperforming, obsolete mainframe systems to client-server environments designed to handle the changing business demands of their operational counterparts. Many firms moved from their troubled systems in the late 1990s to avoid the year 2000 (Y2K) problem and to standardize processes across their businesses. Reference : Sharda, R., Delen, Dursun, Turban, E., Aronson, J. E., Liang, T-P., & King, D. (2015). Business Intelligence and Analytics: Systems for Decision Support. 10th Edition. By PEARSON Education. Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-13-305090-5 Assignment : Regarding the background statement above, how can you define the functions of ERP to the organizations in this day and time of IT importance to strategic planning. Give examples of processes ERP supports and what are the critical success factors to make sure the implementation of an enterprise resource planning system is successful. Your research paper should be at least three pages (800 words), double-spaced, have at least 4 APA references, and typed in an easy-to-read font in MS Word (other word processors are fine to use but save it in MS Word format). Your cover page should contain the following: Title, Student’s name, University’s name, Course name, Course number, Professor’s name, and Date. .

1. Background
: According to Sharda (2015), Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) was designed to help large companies manage the
fragmentation of information stored in hundreds of individual
desktop, department, and business unit computers across the
organization. These modules offered the IS department in many
large organizations an option for switching from
underperforming, obsolete mainframe systems to client-server
environments designed to handle the changing business
demands of their operational counterparts. Many firms moved
from their troubled systems in the late 1990s to avoid the year
2000 (Y2K) problem and to standardize processes across their
businesses.
Reference
: Sharda, R., Delen, Dursun, Turban, E., Aronson, J. E., Liang,
T-P., & King, D. (2015). Business Intelligence and Analytics:
Systems for Decision Support. 10th Edition. By PEARSON
Education. Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-305090-5
Assignment
: Regarding the background statement above, how can you
define the functions of ERP to the organizations in this day and
time of IT importance to strategic planning. Give examples of
processes ERP supports and what are the critical success factors
to make sure the implementation of an enterprise resource
planning system is successful.
Your research paper should be at least three pages (800 words),
double-spaced, have at least 4 APA references, and typed in an
easy-to-read font in MS Word (other word processors are fine to

2. use but save it in MS Word format). Your cover page should
contain the following: Title, Student’s name, University’s name,
Course name, Course number, Professor’s name, and Date.