In this review, migration refers to the process of moving from non-relational to relational without manually rewriting all existing applications. The paper illustrates the migration method and process, surveys the current migration products, and discusses managerial issues for making the migration process effective. The discussion of these issues will help the practitioner in planning migration...

The present study examines the role that employee self-efficacy fulfills in ERP effectiveness. For this examination, the study uses data from 116 key users from different companies with ERPimplementation experience in Taiwan. Results suggest that ERP training and learning significantly improved ERP Effectiveness. However, regarding improved business performance, respondents with ‘high’ ERP-trai...

The complexities in making an enterprise resource planning (ERP) upgrade decision have been widely cited in the trade press. As a consequence, a significant percentage of ERP clients deferring the upgrade decision is resulted. Yet, to date we observe paucity of research with which to conceptualize and explain the important factors influencing ERP upgrade decision. This study attempts to explain...

The success of ERP implementation depends, to a large extent, on the intensity and nature of its use by end-users. Therefore, it is important to understand the phenomena underlying end-users’ acceptance of ERP systems. This study was conducted at a large institution that implemented an ERP system. It uses the grounded theory approach to inductively develop a model that highlights key factors in...

Previous research on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has focused mainly on the initial implementations of the solution. However, many companies that installed ERP solutions in the late 1990’s are at the point where they need to upgrade their solution to a current release. This paper provides a model that identifies the different types of knowledge created in the initial implementatio...

The higher education has been greatly impacted by worldwide trends. In a result, the universities throughout the world are focusing to enhance performance and efficiency in their workings. Therefore, the higher education has moved their systems to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to cope with the needs of changing environment. However, the literature review indicates that there is voi...

here, we propose a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (fahp) method to evaluate the alternatives of enterprise resource planning (erp) system. the fuzzy ahp approach allows the users get values more accurately to model the vagueness which changes according subjective ideas in the decision-making environment for erp system selection problem. therefore, fuzzy ahp method is used to obtain firm decis...

This paper investigates how enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can influence enterprise management strategy and structure and vice versa. The research provides an up-to-date literature review, empirical case studies and proposes a new conceptual model – the Dynamic Enterprise Reference Grid for ERP (DERG-ERP) – as a management contingency framework.