Talk:Enterprise planning system

Among IT professionals, enterprise planning systems are traditionally associated with enterprise resource planning software. The subject is sometimes used interchangeably with ERP. In the case of the University of California, Berkeley Campus Budget Office, enterprise planning systems refer to a set of enterprise planning and budgeting software specifically grouped into Gartner's Magic Quadrants vendor evaluation method.

However, several studies like the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research's The Promise and Performance of Enterprise Systems for Higher Education and Berente, Ivanov, & Vandenbosch's Process Compliance and Enterprise System Implementation (2007) document the enterprise wide planning systems that are used to implement enterprise software like ERPs and budgeting and planning software. 'System' does not necessarily mean 'software' in such cases.

In short, enterprise planning has become the current IT jargon for the usual global planning or big business planning and strategic management. Implementing ERPs require enterprise wide planning through the use of non-ERP enterprise software, standalone software and even methods of analyses to derive the best results from this expensive project which can take years to execute as several researchers observe.

Academic researches on enterprise software implementations describe the same concepts among influential strategic management textbooks like Mellahi, Frynas, & Finlay's Global Strategic Management (2005). These are essentially paraphrases of the same ideas using different terms for which the IT industry is more familiar with. Instead of referring to a multinational firm, a global business, a regional business, or an organization with geographic presence in multiple states, the IT industry offered the new connotation of an 'enterprise' to differentiate big firms from smaller organizations.

If a reader is looking for software, Enterprise resource planning will address such information. If a reader is looking for information on implementing such software as a strategy, then Enterprise planning systems is the right place. Enterprise planning systems is simply a paraphrase of the numerous studies on why enterprise software (and hardware) are implemented and the challenges that go along with such enterprise projects.

It's quite preposterous to provide no distinctions between Enterprise resource planning and Enterprise planning systems when project managers have to plan extensively to implement an ERP by phases, manage change, make the ERP fully operational, upgrade it or even find funding to implement the project. This is simply back to basics where enterprise planning has been paraphrased-- big business strategy. Pmresource (talk) 21:54, 23 October 2011 (UTC)