Erp

From On-premise Erp to Cloud Erp: the Alignment Challenge, the Law and other Social Sciences

One of the concerns linked to ERP implementation is alignment. Indeed, ERP systems affect almost all business processes and even some strategic choices of a firm. That is why many studies focus on alignment concerns when studying ERP implementation. Nevertheless, firms are more and more interested in switching toward cloud ERP (Mezghani, 2014). By the way, “their business strategy, IT strategy, business processes and information technologies shall be re-aligned” (Li al., 2011). However, “no cloud computing service vendor can satisfy the complete functional information system requirements of an enterprise” (Li al., 2011). This involves great challenges for business-IT alignment of an enterprise. Also, with cloud ERP, data and applications are provider-hosted. So, the way ERP is managed may be redefined and achieving alignment might be more challenging. Thus, this topic aims to expose the major challenges and issues linked to ERP systems alignment. Some tendencies and best practices are also proposed for firms to overcome the alignment challenges, mainly in a cloud environment.[1]

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1. karim mezghani, “From On-PREMISE ERP to CLOUD ERP: The ALIGNMENT CHALLENGE” (Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition, Information Resources Management Association, 2018)