Most higher education institutions focus on costs, schedules, hardware, software features, and other technology problems when they are implementing their new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

ERP implementations, however, are much more than information technology projects. These projects provide excellent opportunities to transform the entire organization.

This Best Practices Brief focuses on 5 key opportunities for institutions to consider to best leverage their ERP investment:

1. Business Process Re-Engineering
2. Talent Management
3. Reporting
4. Workflow and Automation
5. Business Intelligence