Collaborate or Perish! With the reorientation of back-office systems around "markets of one," no business can afford to operate hierarchically. Rather, to meet customer demand, you must have a "just in-time" model in place that channels necessary information and resources across the supply chain at fiber-optic speed

Solving the ERP Paradox. An important but underpublicized paradox arises when building data warehouses that draw on ERP systems as data sources: Doing so eases the task of ensuring data consistency, yet also makes creating accessible data marts much more difficult. Do available tools answer the challenge?