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CIS 446 Week 3 Case Study 1: Packaged Solutions for ERP Implementation
Case Study 1: Packaged Solutions for ERP Implementation
Due Week 3 and worth 100 points
Read the article “Introducing Packaged Solutions” and complete this case study assignment.
Note: The article in PDF format can be found in the online course shell.
Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
Define packaged solution for enterprise software customers. Determine the organizational
support needed for enabling a packaged solution with an ERP software vendor, such as SAP.
Determine the organizational, master, and transactional data in an ERP context.
Analyze how a packaged solution eases the difficulties of data integration across the company.
Provide an example to support your answer.
Speculate the pitfalls of using packaged solutions for an enterprise and how to avoid those
pitfalls.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites
do not qualify as quality resources.