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05.05.04
'SMEs
lagging in IT, e-readiness'
SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) are slow to adopt information
technology to improve efficiency and quality of their products.
According to a survey on e-readiness (electronic readiness)
of India, only 8-10 per cent of the over
three-million SMEs have ventured into IT usage, said Ms R. Rajalakshmi,
Director, Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), who is
also associated with the study.
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The
ABCs of ERP
Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP, doesn't live
up to its acronym. Forget about planning—it doesn't do
much of that—and forget about resource, a throwaway term.
But remember the enterprise part. This is ERP's true ambition.
It attempts to integrate all departments and functions across
a company onto a single computer system that can serve all those
different departments' particular needs.
That is a tall order, building a single software program that
serves the needs of people in finance as well as it does the
people in human resources and in the warehouse. Each of those
departments typically has its own computer system optimized
for the particular ways that the department does its work. But
ERP combines them all together into a single, integrated software
program that runs off a single database so that the various
departments can more easily share information and communicate
with each other. That integrated approach can have a tremendous
payback if companies install the software correctly.
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