Manufacturing Industry
SAP introduces the non-upgrade.
Manufacturing Business Technology, February, 2007
By Sidney Hill, Jr., executive editor Determining the right time to upgrade an ERP system is a never-ending conundrum for IT managers. No one wants to take on such a large financial and logistical burden without being sure it will produce real business value. At the same time, delaying an upgrade for too long could put a company at a competitive disadvantage if industry peers become early adopters of new technology or functionality in a vendor's latest release.
Last fall, SAP said it had freed its customers from having to wrestle with the upgrade decision--at least for awhile--by creating a new road map for the mySAP ERP 2005 suite. Of course, anyone not already on this version of mySAP will have to make that upgrade. But once that's...
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