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Introduction DATA is a dream. Documents are a nightmare. Companies that have taken the leap into the ERP Age, wiring up their operations across the organisation, are soaking up the benefits of having real-time, accurate, and crisp facts and figures delivered to every desktop so greedily that they've forgotten about the messier half of information management.So this is the other side to the picture. WHILE ERP integrates all kinds of data-no matter where in the organisation it originates-into a single, accurate, updated body of information available to everyone, it can only work with structured, formatted, objectively-verifiable facts and figures. ERP software is designed to model and automate all the basic processes of a company, from finance to the shop floor, with the goal of integrating information across the company and eliminating complex, expensive links between computer systems that were never meant to talk to each other. ERP may be an enabler of quick and result-oriented decision-making. But it is passive as it only provides information that managers ask for, without ensuring that they act upon it. DEMANDING AS it does the installation of expensive hardware, extensive customisation of the software, and time-cons