General ledger
Budgeting
Human resource, benefits, and payroll
Customer Relationship Management. (CRM)
Manufacturing
– Forecasting, materials requirements, planning and purchasing
Supply Chain Management
Order Processing, inventory management
Logistics, distribution, fulfillment
Training The ERP Players
Oracle
SAP
J. D. Edwards
I2 and IBM
PeopleSoft
Baan
Siebel 4.0 Summary
Outsourced productivity applications on the internet are edging somewhat closer to reality. Large companies in particular want to own their applications and have them interface with other systems.
5.0 Conclusion
You have understood the nature of application providers, the obstacles to success in established enterprises and enterprise resource planning(ERP). The resources, the hope, the hype, the pains, why it fails often. You can now move on to the next unit on developing and enhancing a product catalogue.
6.0 Tutor-Marked Assignments
1. What are the obstacles to the success of established enterprises?
2a. What is ERP?
2b. Mention the ERP players.
7.0 References/Further Reading
“The Website is the Business: Corporate America harnesses the power of e-marketplaces, XML, and other tools for e-commerce;” Fortune; Jan. 8, 2001.
“The Future of the Internet;” Fortune; Jan. 8, 2001.
“The Law of the Pack ;” David P. Reed; Harvard Business Review; Feb. 2001.
“That Sneaky Exponential—Beyond Metcalfe's Law to the Power of Community Building;” David P. Reed;
Gartner Group [ www.gartnerweb.com ]
“Today, Tokyo; Tomorrow, the World: In Japan, DoCoMo's wireless Web phones are all the rage. Now it's taking its cutting-edge technology global;” by Jim Rohwer; Fortune; September 18,2000
R. K. Merton, “The Sociology of Science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973, pp 439-59.
R. H. Frank and P. J.Cook, “The Winner-Take-All Society,” Penguin Books, NY, 1995.
“Lucent to buy super-router developer Nexabit;” by Stephen Lawson;
InfoWorld; June 26, 1999.
“A Whole New Ball Game;” Fortune Magazine July 24, 2000. P 82 Debt versus Equity Analysts: Whose Call Counts?” Business Week p 42; July 10 ,2000.
"Amazon's Amazing Valuation;" Business Week: December 14, 1998 “Victoria's Secret for Webcasts is IP multicasting;” by Bob Trott;
InfoWorld, August 16, 1999
“At Ford, E-Commerce is Job 1,” Business Week, February 28, 2000 p 74.
“Internet Carve Outs: Separating Net businesses from large firms may be the next big thing;” Fortune; February 28, 2000.
“B2B: The Hottest Net Bet Yet? Business-to-business Web outfits may wind up having even more impact than e-tailers;” Business Week; : Jan.
17, 2000.
“VC Money Keeps Growing and Flowing;” by Carol Levin; PC Magazine p 80; August 2000.
“B2B: Will the big boom go bust?” by Scot Petersen, eWeek; John S.
McCright and Dennis Fisher; December 8, 2000.
“1999's B2B superstar crashes and burns;” by John Dodge; eWeek;
December 11, 2000.
“Enron: This seven month old site has seen $80 billion in transactions;”
by E. Schonfeld; eCompany p 82; August 2000. [www.eCompany.com].
‘Q&A with Enron's Jeffrey Skilling: ‘People paint us as an Old Economy company that's now New Economy;’” Business Week; July 13, 2000.
“Exchanges shift gears: Consolidation forces players to adopt new business models;” by Eugene Grygo and Ephraim Schwartz; Infoworld;
Friday, Nov. 24, 2000 .
Clayton Christensen, “The Innovator's Dilemma : When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail;” Harvard Business School Press; 1997.
Elder Research Website: www.datamining.com Kdnuggets website:
http://www.kdnuggets.com/polls/dm_tools_oct_2000.htm
“Data Mining -Sharpen Your Edge: E-businesses are using the data mining features packed into the latest customer service tools to outshine the competition.” by B. Reimers; InternetWeek; May 10, 2000.
“Data Mining -Sharpen Your Edge: E-businesses are using the data mining features packed into the latest customer service tools to outshine the competition.” by B. Reimers; InternetWeek; May 10, 2000.
http://www.ama.org/about/ama/markdef.asp
“Price Smarter on the Net;” W. Baker, M. Marn, and C. Zawada;
Harvard Business Review; p 122-127; Feb. 2000.
“American consumers will force e-tailers to just say no to dynamic pricing.” InfoWorld; Friday, Oct. 6, 2000
“A Fool's Paradise;”;” Philipp Harper, Forbes ASAP, Feb. 19, 2001.
http://www.marketingmonthly.com/basics.htm
“Are Customers Kings?;” Information Week; December 11, 2000.
“The New WWWorld of Retail;” by S. Rupley; PC Magazine p iBiz 7;
August 2000.
“The Law of the Pack ;” David P. Reed; Harvard Business Review; Feb. 2001.
“WebEx drags RuPaul into the Web;” Red Herring; Dec. 11, 1999.
“Top New Economy Lies;” by Jane Weaver; Smart Business for the New Economy p 102; August 2000.
“Bathroom (Give Me a) Break;” Business 2.0; Jan. 23, 2001.
(www.business2.com )
“The New Business Ethics: Cheat, Lie, & Steal;” Smart Business for the New Economy p 86 June 2000.
“Cyber Assaults Raise Jitters for Investors,” Wall Street Journal, Thursday February 10, 2000, page C1.
“Yahoo attack sends up red flag for e-businesses,” The Dallas Morning News, 9 February 2000.
“Blue Chips Slide 258.44 Points as Bonds Tumble,” Wall Street Journal, Thursday February 10, 2000, page C1.
“Canadian police arrest suspect in major Web attacks;” By Erich Luening; CNET News.com; April 19, 2000
“Hackers on the Attack, Hitting Top Sites,” By Dick Satran, SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) on Yahoo Tuesday February 8.
“Privacy: Outrage on the Web;” Heather Green; Business Week; Feb. 14, 2000
“P3P privacy technology slammed: Consumer groups say P3P
technology allows companies to collect more consumer information, not less.” By Robert Lemos, ZDNet News; June 22, 2000.
[http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2591856,00.html]
“Privacy Critics Slam Project Backed by White House, AOL and Microsoft;” Time Magazine; June 23, 2000.
[http://www.time.com/time/digital/daily/0,2822,48014,00.html]
“Pretty Poor Privacy: An Assessment of P3P and Internet Privacy;
Electronic Privacy Information Center;” June 2000;
[http://www.epic.org/reports/prettypoorprivacy.html]
“The Politics of Privacy Protection;” Information Week p 40; July 17, 2000.
“Uncle Sam Has No Business Busting up Microsoft;” Business Week; p 36; June 19, 2000.
(Ford-GM-Chrysler Portal)
“Why this new E-Biz is raising Trustbusters’ Hackles;” BusinessWeek p 51; June 19, 2000.
M. Vander Weyer. “Globalism vs. Nationalism vs. e-Business;” Strategy and Business 18; First Quarter 2000; p 63.
MODULE 4: DEVELOPING AND ENHANCING A PRODUCT