You are employed as an IT professional at a firm that has about 150 employees in 5 departments:
production/inventory, marketing, finance/accounting, HR, and IT. Until now, each department uses its
computer applications and databases; and all are connected to each other through another connection
layer.
Give the problems and costly maintenance of this arrangement, the firm wants to remove all these
systems and use a single ERP system to integrate all of the firms’ processes and operations and be used
by all employees and departments in the business. Management has asked you to prepare a report to
address this issue. First management wants to know which is better an in-house ERP or a cloud-based
ERP and second management want to know which the most appropriate system is to use I each
category.
