Best of Breed IT Strategy: An Alternative to Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has become the dominant strategic platform for supporting enterprise-wide business processes. However, single vendor ERP software systems have been criticised for not meeting specific organisation and industry requirements. An alternative approach `Best of Breed (BoB)', integrates components of software from multiple standard package vendors, and in some cases custom components. The objective is to develop enterprise systems that are more closely aligned with the requirements of an organisation. Although this approach may not be common at present it is likely to grow in importance due to business needs and technology advances such as the componentisation of ERP software. A case study analysis of a BoB implementation at a global entertainment's company is used as a platform for the discussion of the issues associated with this strategy and a comparison is made with the single vendor ERP alternative. The analysis centres on the comp...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ECIS
• Authors: Ben Light, Christopher P. Holland, Sue Kelly, Karl Wills
• Keywords: ECIS 2000, ECIS 2004, ERP Software, Single Vendor Erp, Vendor Erp Software