The Missing Link CIO article by Lee Pender concerning how information from the back end of ERP doesn't always make it into e-commerce applications. http://www.cio.com/archive/061500_link.html

Making the move to XML Next-Generation E-Business. XML adoption survey. August 15, 2000. http://www.cio.com/sponsors/081500_xml.html

ERP Training Stinks Malcolm Wheatley, CIO Magazine June 1, 2000. As ERP implementations falter and fail, many people think the answer is more training. They're wrong. http://www.cio.com/archive/060100_erp.html

Aligning Your Data Collection and ERP Implementation Decisions This white paper explores the importance of Automated Data Collection and how it can improve an ERP that is already in place. PDF format. http://www.erpassist.com/browse.asp?c=ERPPeerPublishing&r=http%3A%2F%2Fcorp%2Eintermec%2Ecom%2Ferp%5Fwp%2Epdf

Walking The Razors Edge: Threaded Simultaneous Supply Chain Planning This white paper explains the difference between Supply Chain Planning(SCP) systems and ERP systems and then argues that threaded simultaneous SCP systems allow a company to better serve customers by organizing better and coordinating internal and partner activities. http://www.erpassist.com/browse.asp?c=ERPPeerPublishing&r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecaelus%2Ecom%2Fwalking%2Ehtm

What is ERP? Derek Slater, CNN, May 28, 1999. Discusses ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning, a software system that aims to serve as a backbone for your whole business (from CIO). http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/28/erpent.idg/index.html

ERP: still alive in the Internet age Thomas Davenport, Network World, February, 28, 2000. Over the past decade, two major innovations have transformed the way companies build and operate information systems: the Internet and its associated e-commerce technologies, and enterprise resource planning systems. http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/0228devenport.html

The road to extended ERP Roberto Michel, in Manufacturing Systems March 2000, provides information on manufacturers pursuing diverse strategies for adding CRM, APS, business intelligence functions to ERP backbones. http://www.manufacturing.net/dc/192/072100x.htm

Big Risk for Small Fry Wayne D. Bennett, CIO Magazine, May 15, 2000. Contractual tips for new entrants in the ERP game. http://www.cio.com/archive/051500_fine.html

ERP Success Isn't All in the Software Janet Gould, HP World. How attention to hardware "Smarts" pays off. http://www.hpworld.org/hpworldnews/hpw809/app/02app.html

The Vision - Special Report: The Integrated Enterprise - CIO Magazine May 15, 2000 By Derek Slater. Getting to the truly integrated enterprise should not be a piecemeal journey. You've got to have a vision of where you're going in order to get there. http://www.cio.com/archive/051500_vision.html

The ABCs of ERP. What is ERP? The ABCs of ERP. Compiled from reports by Christopher Koch, Derek Slater and E. Baatz http://www.cio.com/forums/erp/edit/122299_erp.html

Making Change Philip Diehl, June 2000, Darwin Magazine. The U.S. Mint's Philip Diehl found that overseeing an enterprisewide systems project is no easy task. Especially when you've got a deadline you can't afford to miss. http://www.darwinmag.com/read/060100/head.html

Application Service Provisioning Abstract - September 1, 2000 The globalized, digital economy is placing new demands on enterprises to become faster and more efficient at the management of information, even while the enterprise becomes ever more extended and complex. EDS sponsored article. http://www.cio.com/sponsors/090100_edseim.html

Avoiding Buyer's Remorse Samuel Greengard, Business Finance Magazine, November, 2000. There are substantial advantages to outsourcing enterprise applications, including ERP software and this article discusses the benefits. http://www.businessfinancemag.com/archives/appfiles/Article.cfm?IssueID=338&ArticleID=13677

A Stitch in Time Linda Eiland Clark, Intelligent Enterprise Magazine, October, 2000. Creating a knowledge transfer framework for your ERP implementation can mean the difference between losing and leveraging your most valuable asset. http://www.intelligententerprise.com/001020/feat3.shtml

Infotivity A good automated RFP makes ERP software selection more accurate! http://www.infotivity.com/ERPisoftwareiselection.html