• Back-propagation artificial neural network for ERP adoption cost estimation 

      Kotb, Mohamed T.; Haddara, Moutaz; Kotb, Yehia T. (Communications in Computer and Information Science;220, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) are greatly affected by cost escalations and overruns Reliable cost factors estimation and management is a key for the success of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems adoptions ...
    • ERP in SMEs : exploring ERP lifestyle cost issues 

      Haddara, Moutaz (Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder;70, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This thesis presents a study of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems lifecycle in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The majority of businesses and firms around the globe can be considered to be SMEs. Thus, ...
    • ERP lifecycle: When to retire your ERP system? 

      Haddara, Moutaz; Elragal, Ahmed (Communications in Computer and Information Science;219, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      A lot of research has been undertaken focusing on ERP systems lifecycles, but very little paid attention to retirement. ERP retirement means the replacement of an ERP with another. The aim of this research paper is to ...
    • ERP systems in SMEs: A literature review 

      Haddara, Moutaz; Zach, Ondrej (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences;44, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This review summarizes research on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). Due to the close-to-saturation of ERP adoptions in large enterprises (LEs), ERP vendors now focus ...
    • The use of experts panels in ERP cost estimation research 

      Elragal, Ahmed; Haddara, Moutaz (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This paper is an effort towards illustrating the use of expert panel (EP) as a mean of eliciting knowledge from a group of enterprise resource planning (ERP) experts as an exploratory research. The development of a cost ...
    • Why benefits realization from ERP in SMEs doesn't seem to matter? 

      Haddara, Moutaz; Päivärinta, Tero (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences;44, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      It is often argued that IT investments require active management practices for benefits realization. This applies also to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. As well, benefits realization efforts are assumed to ...