A six-stage model of the buying process for ERP software

This paper presents a model of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software acquisition process that reflects the findings from the four cases examined in this study. This ERP acquisition process model includes six distinctive, yet interrelated, processes (planning, information search, selection, evaluation, choice, and negotiations). This paper depicts the principal processes and many of the constituent activities, issues, dynamics, and complexities that pertain to the acquisition of ERP software. The results from this study contribute to the identification of processes that are part of this type of acquisition. Further, this model also suggests complexities that are worthy of further investigation, in and of themselves, if for no other reason than that they could prove the limit of generalizability of the model.     

Is the enterprise software sector still in transition? A research note

Advances in information technology have not only promoted competition since the 1980s, but they also advanced globalization in the 1990s. The information technology group has lost its momentum since 2000. One of its vital segments was the enterprise software software sector. The sector’s products—such as ERP, CRM—have spurred the speed and efficiency of scores of U.S. companies and service firms in the past fifty months. In 2000, the majority of enterprise software firms incurred losses. Were one to assume that these innovative firms have a real contribution to augment client firms’ efficiency, the question of how to analyze their performance in the absence of positive net income becomes a Gordian knot. To unravel, we have employed selected non-income based measures as proxy criteria. We classify twenty-two firms into three subsets: Pre-1990 and post-1990 firms, full-line and partial-line firms, and large-capitalized and small-capitalized firms, and perform a comparative analysis on the basis of the proxy measures. While pointing to significant differences in productivity and perceived risks among these subsets, our findings allow us to speculate that, one, cottage-industry status of the sector has ended, and, two, new beginnings, in the post-September era of anxiety, will crystallize in the form of a consolidated industry comprising a few firms that possess the intrinsic value of leveraging their innovative capabilities.     

Impact of the National Pension Fund on the Suitability of Elderly Pensions in Thailand*

This study combines a traditional hypothetical worker approach with the techniques of stochastic forecasting to provide a better sense about the suitability of the pension system for formal sector private workers in Thailand. With regard to the proposed defined‐contribution pension, we find that workers with a 40‐year career can only expect a median replacement rate of approximately 13–14 percent of their final 5 years of income. Most of the pension benefits will still likely come from the unsustainable defined‐benefit pension system and further reforms will be needed to maintain suitable pensions.     

论管理型会计软件的开发

管理型会计软件的本质是对社会主义市场经济条件下具有中国会计管理特色的管理型会计化的反映。管理型会计化的塑造是其产生与发展的前提，管理型会计软件开发的最终归宿是将其部分功能虚拟化，实现弹性开发。     

铁路枢纽计算机模拟过程的实现

为科学、合理地对铁路枢纽编组站的改、新建进行决策,提出应用模拟技术,建立模型,对一些局部问题准确求解。斯洛伐克和中国等国专家研发了模拟软件VirtuOS,并应用该软件对欧洲、亚洲和我国牡丹江编组站进行实际模拟,取得成功。VirtuOS按照实际系统的作业方法、线路结构变化条件,采用反复迭代式的逼近,研究出多种方案,并在某种条件下进行分析、设计和优化,不仅能预先知道决策的结果,还能在节省资金的情况下,用现有可行经验求出最优的解决方案。铁路枢纽采用模拟软件VirtuOS研究解决方案和建议内容含线路布局、资源的规模和项目、技术服务目标、决策的制定、路网的变化等规划的基础。     

关于推进企业文化建设的理性认识

我国现代企业制度的建立和完善,为厂长经理及企业经营管理者提出了新的任务和要求。作为企业的领导者和管理者,必须学习贯彻十六大精神,准确把握企业文化的方向和功能,高度重视企业文化的“软件”开发,即在非物质文化建设上下功夫,同时认识广东企业文化建设的新情况和新特点,注重面向企业中的外来员工进行企业文化建设。     

论企业核心业务的外包--以网络时代的软件产业为例

文章首先分析了企业的非核心业务。核心业务，核心竞争力和竞争优势的涵义及它们的相互关系。在此基础上说明了核心业务可以外包的理论基础，并以软件产业的发展和具体案例深入说明软件公司的核心业务可以外包，文章最后提出了促进我国软件产业发展和我国软件公司和国外软件公司在软件开发领域扩大外包合作的措施。     

信息网络化时代业务外包加速发展的动因

分析了信息网络化时代全球业务外包加速发展的现状、趋势、技术动因和经济动因，在此基础上，提出了我国应采取的促进企业参与国内外业务外包的一系列措施。     

会计软件发展的环境因素及趋势

会计软件的发展受到经济、法律、人才以及管理思想等因素的影响。未来的会计软件将向网络化、信息化、智能化、开放化方向发展 ,功能将进一步扩大 ,安全性成为开发的重点问题。     

基于软件无线电技术的数字集群系统研究

文章针对软件无线电的关键技术,论述软件无线电所涉及的基础理论,分析了软件无线电技术发展现状、可达到的目标。探讨软件无线电理论在集群通信系统的应用。