Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:26:26 BST CiteULike: rodrigoreboucas finance http://www.citeulike.org/user/rodrigoreboucas/tag/finance CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/rodrigoreboucas/article/1830221 <i>IT Professional, Vol. 7, No. 1. (2005), pp. 52-57.</i><br /><br />Organizations have spent billions of dollars in implementing and subsequently repairing, removing, or altering enterprise-wide IT systems for managing finances, customer relationships, human resources, manufacturing resources, and supply chains. Of all IT systems, those for enterprise resource planning (ERP) are among the most difficult to implement. These products provide turnkey automated processes while sharing common data across an organization. Unsuccessful or grossly underestimated efforts to implement ERP tools have resulted in massive financial failures and corporate process disarray for many organizations. Various financial techniques can help organizations select the right projects and better manage the implementation of enterprise systems. The roadmap describes key practices in the fields of financial management and quantitative analysis. A roadmap of financial measures for IT project ROI JN Morgan IT Professional, Vol. 7, No. 1. (2005), pp. 52-57. 2007-10-27T21:02:25-00:00 2005 IT Professional 7 1 52 57 cost estimation finance roi