ERP Getting a New Breath of Fresh Air in Europe
P.J. Jakovljevic - December 25, 2000

Event Summary

According to silicon.com, a leading European IT TV News Service, European companies began to realize the importance of customer oriented ERP applications and are set to dramatically increase their investment in related projects over the next two years. A report commissioned by Oracle and enterprise systems provider Bull claims European companies will increase ERP projects by 50 per cent, double the volume of business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) projects and treble the use of CRM applications in the next two years. Two out of three companies surveyed regarded integration of established ERP systems with new CRM solutions as a crucial business strategy. The survey, conducted by IDC, was based on the IT strategies of 1,000 enterprises throughout Europe...