Overview of Research and Practices in Information Sharing for Enterprise Resource Planning

In recent years, the use of multiple data sources for enterprise resource planning and decision making have become increasingly important. Information sharing among organizations can help achieve important public benefits such as increased productivity, improved policy-making, and integrated public services. This paper reviews uses of multiple data sources for enterprise resource planning and decision making. It identifies current research and practical experiences in the use of multiple data sources to support performance measurement, strategic planning, and inter-organizational business processes. A series of cases are examined, and the benefits, issues, methods, and results of efforts that involve the integration of different data sources in the same organization and across multiple organizations are also identified and compared. The purpose of this paper is to take the first steps towards the development of a methodology for integrating multiple data sources.