ERP Promises in the United Arab Emirates Educational Sector: A Descriptive Analysis of ERP Usage and Utilization

ERP Promises in the United Arab Emirates Educational Sector: A Descriptive Analysis of ERP Usage and Utilization

Rima Shishakly
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4153-2.ch035
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Abstract

Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is one of the major IT innovations in this decade. ERP solutions seek to integrate and modernize business processes and their associated information and work flows. Nonetheless, ERP usage in educational management is still new. Educational institutions for various appropriate factors have begun to implement this technology. The school ERP enterprise solution system offers complete school management software, which covers all the functions related to the smooth functioning of school activities. This chapter provides a complete analysis of ERP solutions in the educational sectors and focuses on ERP usage and utilization in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) public (government) schools.
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Erp Applications In Educational Sector

Educational ERP Solution is not only to automate every operation in a school, college, or university, but it is a solution for educational intuitions who automate all the internal and external processes and also help in improving communication among parents, students, teachers, management staff, and alumni. Watson and Schneider (1999) approve that the aim of ERP implementation in universities and educational sector is to provide colleges, schools, and departments, with an enhanced ability for research and teaching at reasonable or low cost. Allen and Kern (2001) agree that it has been implemented in many educational institutions of all levels from Nursery Schools to Colleges around the world.

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