ICT and ERP applications challenges in romanian SMEs

Grama Ana () and Fotache Doina ()
Additional contact information
Fotache Doina: The Department of Economics, Quantitative Analysis and Business Information Systems, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iasi - Stiinte Economice (1954-2015), 2007, vol. 54, 22-28

Abstract: Small and Medium-Size Enterprises represent the spinal cord of most European Union countries' economies. In Romania, the SME "Cinderella" has been increasingly attracting the attention of SMEs specialists and agencies because, after Romania has joined the EU, this sector needs consolidation so as to add value to the national economy. The new information technologies can function as drivers to increase SMEs' efficiency and productivity in the current global economy. The grand players in the IT industry have been increasingly considered SMEs. "Heavy" names such as IBM, Oracle, Compaq or Microsoft are developing SMEs projects, both for equipment (servers, flexible technological architectures), and for integrated solutions (ERP, CRM, BI, SCM), solutions which were initially targeting large businesses only. Small Business is already becoming an important segment that the whole IT industry is targeting. Romanian SMEs must consider this trend and be prepared for the "technological fashion". The heavy survival test cannot be passed without this support.

Keywords: SMEs; ERP; CRM; ICT; e-commerce; electronic business; integrated solutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://anale.feaa.uaic.ro/anale/resurse/03_Grama_A ... in_romanian_SMEs.pdf (application/pdf)
http://anale.feaa.uaic.ro/anale/en/Arhiva%202007%20-%20Grama/115 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aic:journl:y:2007:v:14:p:22-28

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iasi - Stiinte Economice (1954-2015) from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sireteanu Napoleon-Alexandru ().