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Try it free today: http://search400.com/r/0,,15338,00.htm?asna ================================================================== Today's Featured Tip ================================================================== THE BUMPY ROAD TO IMPLEMENTING AN ERP PACKAGE -- PART 1 By Dwight Beech Implementing any software product can be troublesome, but when your company decides to install an ERP package you could spend years on the project. Search400.com expert Dwight Beech describes the process his team followed for selecting an ERP package. >> CLICK here for the full tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci906569,00.html?Offer=06click ================================================================== Answers to Other Programmer Questions ================================================================== ERP/MRP SKILLS IN DEMAND Recently a Search400.com user asked career expert Vic Sprega what he expects the job market to be like this summer. Vic described areas of the country where he expects growth and skills that he believes will be in demand. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid512114_tax284944,00.html?Offer=06click TESTING ERP DOCUMENTS Search400.com member Garry Farndell said they use document- formatting software to customize their ERP documents, i.e. invoices, customer order acknowledgements for printing and converting into PDF format for e-mailing. An invaluable tool in testing and developing these forms, he said, is the ability to modify and create spool files easily with different conditions, max filled fields etc. without having to change the database and run the ERP applications. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci869915,00.html?Offer=06click ERP VENDORS RIDE INTEGRATED APPROACH IN PURSUIT OF CRM GIANT SIEBEL Vendors of enterprise relationship planning (ERP) software are campaigning on a platform of integration as they attempt to displace Siebel Systems Inc. as the de facto leader in the market for customer relationship management (CRM) systems. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci857447,00.html?Offer=06click PEOPLESOFT AND JDE SUE ORACLE, ALTER MERGER TERMS Both PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards are asking the courts to stop Oracle from continuing with its takeover bid for PeopleSoft. Meantime, PeopleSoft is now dangling cash in front of J.D. 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