Conduct research to find two standard packages that you feel may fit your compan
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Question
Conduct research to find two standard packages that you feel may fit your company. For example, SAP is a one of the solutions that a company can utilize, to do everything from human resources, finance, and inventory.
You should use 2 credible sources, which may include journal articles from Academic Journals. You can access these through the Rasmussen Online Library databases.
Use APA formatting to write your paper and to document your sources. It will be important to cite your sources both in-text and on your reference page.
You are required to discuss the following:
In a single document, provide a summary of the two software packages that you researched. Include the following information in your summary:
Cost
Availability
Required Hardware
Training and Support Package
Transition Time
Briefly explain the advantages and disadvantages of each of the software.
In the summary, indicate the product that you feel is the best fit for your company and why.
Include an APA formatted reference page.
Include an APA formatted title page.
Explanation / Answer
Example- SAP ERP for company ABB Limited-
Cost- 5 million USD roughly
Availability- was available promptly from SAP, Germany Head Quarters
Required Hardware- using IBM Power 595 servers for its operational needs, Equipped with ultra-high frequency IBM POWER6 processors in up to 64-core, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) configurations for it’s data center.
Training and Support Package- managing and operating the data center; providing end-user support, overall network management, disaster recovery services and technical support of business applications via this outsourcing partnership with IBM India
Transition Time- 2 year, as ABB’s businesses is quite diversified and it takes much long to integrate various departments and functions for the need of business and train people.
Advantages-
Disadvantages- Not very easy to integrate and understand by all people after a traditional business operational approach, people need quite a lot of training, enthusiasm, hard work, put extra working hours to work and get used to it. Many of the softwares were needed to integrate, which takes a lot of time for data and operational transition.
Example- Zoho CRM for company ABB Limited-
Cost- 0.2 million USD annual subscription roughly
Availability- was available promptly from Zoho
Required Hardware- could easily be configured with existing IBM Power 595 servers for its operational needs to user interfaces
Training and Support Package- 24*7*365 online and offline technical support provided by, remote and service desk and even mobile management support by Zoho
Transition Time- 3 month, as most of the CRM works on cloud basis. Hence easy to transition whole sales and marketing data for respective business units
Advantages-
Disadvantages- limited only to Sales and Marketing function
SAP ERP is the best package as a whole, because it offered an end to end integration with almost of all businesses and related functions, linking to cope up with current and future business needs. Such software is always recommended and provides business analysis to various hidden or unseen agendas and points, making business driven approach more rational. Efficient and fully integrated Finance, HR & OPS business processes across ABB. Continuously Improve customer service and sales through efficient & effective operations was the end result.