A Dazel Corporation survey of IT managers in Global 2000 companies has shown that companies are paying three times as much on consulting costs as they do on the purchase of their ERP software packages. Among other trends identified in the survey, Unix was designated as the lead platform for running ERP applications, and it was expected to maintain its lead over Windows NT for the next year.
The Dazel survey was conducted by Dazel Corporation at the company`s recent inaugural Dazel Live `98 User Symposium in Austin, Texas. Among the Global 2000 early output management adopters represented were Mercedes-Benz, Lucent Technologies, Sikorsky Aircraft, Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont, Kodak, Kohler and the Mayo Foundation.
These early adopters of output management systems are using Dazel`s enterprise output management technology to track, manage and reliably deliver to multiple devices the output generated from their distributed ERP and other enterprise applications.
"Printing is vital to the profitability and flow of our business," says Kelly Sjelin, IT management analyst for Carlson Companies. "We generate thousands of client reports a day for our government and commercial travel clients and we targeted Dazel as a solution that would integrate efficiently and effectively with our existing applications. Dazel was, and still is, the only real contender when it comes to enterprise output management."
Data from the survey indicates that the biggest hurdle in implementing ERP systems is the changing business process surrounding deployment of applications. The second biggest hurdle was identified as integrating with other applications.
"This survey validates many trends we are seeing in the implementation of ERP applications," says Bill Bock, Dazel CEO and president. "ERP users have felt the pain associated with implementing large enterprise applications. This is why they have deployed Dazel Enterprise Output Management to control the tremendous volumes of output generated by ERP applications. Minimising the risk of lost time and revenue can make the difference between success and failure when facing the ERP deployment challenge."
Generating output from ERP and corporate applications is a common implementation problem. Dazel customers said the biggest application output challenge faced by survey participants when attempting to generate reports and other documents as output from ERP applications was the reliability of network printing and faxing, closely followed by the tracking of output deliveries throughout the enterprise.
Dazel products are represented in South Africa by Computer Configurations Holdings subisidary Software Futures.
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