Reasons for Failure of ERP Systems' Enterprise Application Integration

摘要

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects spending at organizations worldwide has absorbed the attention, budgets, and energy of information technology professionals. Therefore, many organizations around the world attempt to increase their ERP functionality by integrating their enterprise packages with legacy systems and other applications via Enterprise Application integration (EAI). EAI technologies provide the means to integrate strategic business solutions within and across the component parts of organizational information systems infrastructures. The adoption of EAI with ERP still suffers from frequent failure which affects the overall integration project success. This paper presents the most common reasons behind the failure in integration between ERP and other enterprise applications.