research the state of Enterprise Systems (e.g. ERP, SCM, CRM) in the
banking Industry
To what extent is the industry automated to what extent it appears to
be successful, are legacy systems in place or are ERP, SCM or CRM
systems in place, or a combination, what functionality is used, what
vendors are used, is a best of breed approach used etc. Included may
be EDI networks and the Internet. Try to find examples of what
products are used in some firms in your industry.

Important= {{{What approaches were used? (benchmarking, examples)
Why? Why did they decide to use it? (advantages/benefits)}}}

Conclusion:
-Importance of ERP, SCM, CRM in the banking industry.  How 
it has changed the management of the banking industry (department  
restructing)

Note: you must provide sources for any information that you provide.
If it is from the internet, provide the URL in addition to the title,
author and date (and date of access to web site).

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Clarification of Question by moseli-ga on 15 Mar 2005 18:35 PST

Generous tip will be provided

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 15 Mar 2005 19:23 PST

Hi moseli-ga!

This a very interesting question and the possible answer could be
interesting if ever you decide to accept it.

Before I start do you already have resources to start this research?
If yes what are they so we won't duplicate the effort.

I was able to find one resource that can comprehensively answer most
of the questions you put forward here. I am not going to guarantee
that all the questions you asked will be answered since some of them
have underlying issues but most of them will be tackled. This document
is made up of 60 pages and was researched in 2004 and was published in
2005.

Remember this is one web document and provides the following
discussions ERP in the banking industry. Here are the topics that will
be tackled by this document:

a. ERP Systems Adoption Growth

b. Popular Brands of ERP Systems for the Banking 

c. Off-the-shelf ERP software usage and growth

d. Features demanded by banks for ERP Software

e. Banks Sourcing Strategies for ERP Systems

f. Bank Selection Criteria in Adopting ERP Systems

g. ERP Functionalities Needed by Banks 

h. Investments Motivations in ERP Software

i. Benefits Expected from ERP Systems

j. Goals and Achievements in ERP software adoption by banks

k. A Picture of Bank Usage of ERP Systems  

l. Bank Reasons for staying with Custom Built Applications


If you feel that the discussions in this document will be enough for a
legitimate answer, I will post a link to it as an official answer.

Thanks!

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 15 Mar 2005 19:27 PST

Also please take note that 100+ international banks (coming from the
US, Europe, and Asia) participated in this study.

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Clarification of Question by moseli-ga on 20 Mar 2005 03:59 PST

I was bussy last week 
but this sounds really good 
I also need info on SCM and CRM 
to include in my report

Thanks