It continued: "The suggestion that Andersen Consulting work for FoxMeyer led to its failure is preposterous. The company claimed the ERP software had been "one component of a broad-ranging initiative conceived and led by FoxMeyer".
Intentia's Movex ERP system - offering financial, manufacturing and distribution applications - will replace existing disparate systems to integrate the company's manufacturing and sales offices throughout Europe.
With enterprises concerned with keeping this cosy relationship, ensuring return on investment (ROI) falls by the wayside. Don Galles, senior manager, European analyst relations for Siebel, said his customer satisfaction figures speak for themselves...
They provide the ability to generate significant business ROI in customer data mining, channel optimisation, unstructured knowledge retention and increased commercial and government portal effectiveness.
Middleware, such as ERP, will be the key to gaining ROI from deploying the tracking technology, the analyst house believes. A separate study from AMR Research has found that ERP is also being taken up more widely, with 16 per cent of manufacturing...
White said Lawson is also planning to integrate reporting capability on CSR issues such as energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, customer privacy complaints and workforce diversity into some of its ERP and business intelligence tools by...