Is the Cloud Educational Enterprise Resource Planning the Answer to Traditional Educational Enterprise Resource Planning Challenges in Universities?

Abstract

Universities, the new target for Enterprise Resource Planning  (ERP) providers such as Google, SAP and Databiz to provide such systems in order to manage their activities in a manner that add value to information from operations and main processes. However challenges have showed to get in the way of applying such systems, although some other universities applied them, and yet failed to get the expected outcomes.

In this study the writer will demonstrate Educational Enterprise Resource Planning (EERP) concept along side with the challenges faced upon application; through a field study that conducted interviews with project managers and operators working on EERP in 10 universities in KSA, Jordan and UAE. Later the writer will explain the Cloud Educational Enterprise Resource Planning (CEERP) concept as a solution in the challenges faced upon EERP application in order to gain maximum benefit from enterprise system in educational institutes.

Keywords: Educational Enterprise Resource Planning (EERP), Cloud Educational Enterprise Resource Planning (CEERP), Challenges of EERP in universities