Compare the best erp systems from each category

Reference no: EM133557400

Assignment: ERP Report

You are employed as an IT professional at a firm that has about 150 employees in 5 departments: production/inventory, marketing, finance/accounting, HR, and IT. Until now, each department uses its computer applications and databases; and all are connected to each other through another connection layer.

Give the problems and costly maintenance of this arrangement, the firm wants to remove all these systems and use a single ERP system to integrate all of the firms' processes and operations and be used by all employees and departments in the business. Management has asked you to prepare a report to address this issue. First management wants to know which is better an in-house ERP or a cloud-based ERP and second management want to know which the most appropriate system is to use I each category.

Prepare a report to address the following:

I. Make a comparison (advantages and disadvantage) between in-house and cloud ERP systems: Use your own words; no cut and paste from the Internet.

	In-house ERP systems	Cloud ERP system
Security	Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
No problems/issues	Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy	rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

II. Compare the best ERP systems from each category (in terms of ; address features, capability, cost (fixed, on-going) , maintenance etc).

E.g.

	ERPsys1 (in-house)	SkyERP (cloud
Cost	1.5 million dollars	1.23 million dollars
Annual maintenance	$200,000	$50,000
Training	On-site by vendor	Virtual by vendor
Num of users	Up to 500	Less than hundred

III. Recommendation

Address which system you recommend for management to get and explain the reason for your recommendation and selecting which type and which system to acquire.

Reference no: EM133557400

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