AMR Research: Who We Are

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AMR Research Who We Are

• Industry and Market Analysis Firm
• Advise business and technical executives on using
  technology and applications to implement business
  strategies
• Boston, MA - Irvine, CA -London, UK
• Incorporated - 1986, Privately Held
• Worked with OAUG on Oracle Upgrade Research

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Performance Driven Enterprise (PDE) Business
Change Projects
EPM Corporate Dashboards
Strategic Sourcing
Product Portfolio Management
PLM Implementation
Collaborative Forecasting
Global Order Management
Employee Self-Service
MRO Service Automation
Building Supplier Portals
Lean Manufacturing
Rolling out Enterprise Apps to Acquired Companies
ERP Upgrades
ERP Instance Consolidation
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ERP Instance Consolidation Research

• Studying projects to help companies
• assess feasibility
• plan for success.
• Large, typically global, companies
• many copies of the same vendors ERP system
• different locations, countries, functional areas
• may expand the functions covered (new modules)
• may add sites (new users) currently using other
  software
• Early results
• governance processes affect costs up to 25
• most projects require reimplementation

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ERP Instance Consolidation Research - Resulting
Research

• Planning considerations for projects
• major options to consider
• the business case
• common obstacles
• metrics for detailed planning and cost/benefit
  analysis
• best practices
• teams and tasks required
• services providers with relevant experience
• Models to assess viability of consolidation
  project and guide a detailed plan

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Want to participate?

• Short on-line survey ( 5 minutes)
• http//websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/6573/2003ERPinstanc
  e.htm
• or Survey box on www.amrresearch.com
• (scroll down and look on right side of screen)
• Discussion of your project (1 hour)
• Possible peer group events on best practices
• Get a copy of results
• Company Specifics kept CONFIDENTIAL
• Contact
• Bill Swanton, VP and Research Fellow
• AMR Research
• 617-574-5113
• bswanton_at_amrresearch.com