The Connected Business Corporate myth or holy grail?

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System complexity is damaging companies - driving up operational costs, draining organisations’ resources, hampering their agility and preventing their ability to assess new opportunities. This infographic looks at the gap between where companies want to be and where they are now in their integration of core IT systems and processes, and the cost of this gap to the business.

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Over 50%

of ERP implementations were over budget

60% of ERP implementations deliveredless than half the expected results

Times moreLikely to be doing better financially

Times more Likelyto be growing

Over 3/4 of

companies input data more than once

Average time to roll out an ERP project in 2013

All of this suggests that mid-sized organisations are typically less effective and efficient than they might be – a real concern in today’s challenging business environment.

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Companies with best system integration are

Does your organisation experience any of the following issues?

How did your organisation implement solutions?

Over budget & Over time

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Difficulty in making changes to systems

Having to input the same data more than once

77%73%

Difficulty in producing reports that require data from different systems 72%Conflicting data and/or reports 68%Need multiple sources of support

Too much use of made Excel 63%Difficulty in understanding reports from different functions 61%

68%

There was no over - archiving plan for the entire organisation

Solutions were implemented over time - not all at once

We tried to choose the best solution (in terms of functionality) for each function

We tried to keep costs low

Functional heads work independently to select suppliers without considering the bigger picture 45%

97%

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