Managing the Enterprise on Limited Resources Using ERPs

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Tim Goral of University Business examines the use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) in the current economic climate by interviewing several campus leaders and some experts from the corporate world:

We’ve all heard the mantra: Do more with less. In the current economy, colleges and universities are continually being asked to be more productive and effective with ever-shrinking resources. A key to accomplishing that is to have a solid information system—an intergrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that can help them toward that goal in numerous ways.

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The other big difference is a fundamental shift in the way our staff is being used. When we had our legacy system, most of our development staff was in maintenance and repair mode. Now we’re almost completely out of that mode and looking at how to create value-adding projects for our university.

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