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An Overview
Founded in 1984 by two Stanford computer scientists
Became publicly traded in 1990
Primary product is “router”
By 1997, Cisco was ranked top five companies in return on revenues and ROA in Fortune 500
In 1998, market capitalization was over $100 billion
.Problems faced by CISCO with its Legacy Application.
Legacy Systems could not handle 80% of annual growth rate of Cisco.
Systems outages became routine exacerbated by the difficulties of recovery from outages.
Each functional areas had to make its own decision regarding changing the Legacy System and Fund it.
The Legacy System crashed because a workaround due to the systems inability to perform malfunctioning,Corrupting the central database.
Benefits CISCO expected with ERP implementation.
Change the ways companies work by integrating the back-office processes into one smoothly functioning whole
The years of implementing the ERP system should be less.
Efficiency of the enterprise in isolation.
By the time they were done with implementation of ERP systems should be more reliable and have higher redundancy.
Areas Concerned to be Lucky.
Well trained and well experienced team.
Vendor was highly efficient enough to meet the needs of the company.
There was a good Change Management.