Overview of Integrated Information Technology Solutions and Their Impacts
From considerations highlighted in previous paragraph, it emerges that the need of integration between the marketing/sales and manufacturing represents a good field to implementation of integrated Information Technology solution, as Enterprise Resource Planning Enterprise Resource Planning .
The Enterprise Resource Planning solutions, complex and integrated cross-functional systems, can help to coordinate several activities, generating information in real time to support the decision processes, and simultaneously improving the quality of operations, human resources and accounting .
It is evident that the technology is only one aspect in the
Enterprise Resource Planning , because it is not possible to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning without considering the other aspects, in particular these ones refer to people and processes.
In fact the implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning
can be influenced by several factors, especially of organizational nature like the suitable training and education, the implementation team, the top management commitment, the fit between the Enterprise Resource Planning system and organization :
The success or failure of the Enterprise Resource Planning
system can be linked to all these factors.
According to these considerations we believe that the analysis of every Information Technology solution cannot ignore its managerial, organizational and accounting impacts, because these impacts may affect the achievement of goals of the Information Technology solution itself.