The successful implementation and deployment of Enterprise Resource Planning depends hinges on an organization's understanding of the complex and challenging issues involved in the process. And, the further development of information and communication technologies are presenting more challenges to organizations. Attempts to provide the most recent research and findings concerning these issues, in order to provide practical assessments and suggestions for managers in the process of developing such systems.

The Second Wave ERP Market: An Australian Viewpoint; Intrinsic and Contextual Data Quality: The Effect of Media and Personal Involvement; Challenging the Unpredictable: Changeable Order Management Systems; Healthcare Information: From Administrative to Practice Databases; Distributed Data Warehouse for Geo-Spatial Services; Development of Interactive Web Sites to Enhance Police/Community Relations; The Effects of an Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) Implementation on Job Characteristics: A Study Using the Hackman and Oldham Job Characteristics Model; Data Mining for Business Process Reengineering; Enterprise Application Integration: New Solutions for a Solved Problem or a Challenging Research Field?; Relevance and Micro-Relevance for the Professional as Determinants of IT-Diffusion and IT-Use in Healthcare; A Framework for the Selection of ERP Packages for Small to Medium and Large Organizations; The Impact of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems on Organizational Effectiveness: An Artifact Evaluation; Applying Data Mining Techniques to Improve Data Quality of Patient Records