Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.

This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.

The best run business is run SAP.

Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.

You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions.

Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

If you want to run with the game changers, you are absolutely positively in the right place, because this is where the best run. Let's see what the buzz on the street is today. I have a quote from a website, A.T. Kearney, K-E-A-R-N-E-Y.C-Z, found this interesting quote, and this will set us up very nicely for our topic today. Listen up. Few business applications

have attracted as much management attention over the years as ERP systems. Now listen

up. This is a really important part. And the line between fact and fiction or myth and best

practice can be difficult to discern.

So yes, we're talking about ERP today, so all of you put your business hats on.

So let's give a little more background here.

In IT, curiosity drives innovation.

I love that.

It came from my colleague Brad Borkin, who is on our show today. But some of this curiosity and this innovation, it's just buzz, just techno buzz, just

pie in the sky floating around there. Yes, yes, yes. It's myth, it's fiction. But some of it is

actually important and essential to modern life and modern business. So new ERP and intelligent

technologies and systems are promising breakthroughs, big-time breakthroughs,

for organizations, whether your company is focused on finance or retail, manufacturing,

consumer products, or health care, this is important to you.

So the question on the table today is, how do you separate the fiction from the fact, the

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