e-Business and ERP
Both e-Business and ERP technologies have pretty much evolved simultaneously, since the 1990s.It has been very successful in aligning and 
integrating accounting, finance, human resource, and manufacturing technologies by aligning
business processes with information processing logic and in transforming these organizations
from pure hierarchical structures to matrix and other hybrid or flexible organizational structures.On the other hand, ERP technology
has been successful in integrating business processes across the functional spectrum of the
organization and in providing a central repository of all corporate data, information, and
knowledge, thereby increasing organizational efficiency and worker productivity.While e-Business
systems are better for sharing unstructured data and collaboration, ERP are better for sharing
structured or transaction data; also, e-Business focus was on external integration
(interorganizational), while ERP systems' initial focus was on internal data integration.e-Business technology focus has been on linking a company with its external partners and
stakeholders, whereas ERP focus has been on integrating the functional silos of an organization into
an enterprise application.e-Business technologies that have emerged as successful over the decade
(e.g., business-to-consumer and business-to-business) have generally focused on market growth by
selling products and services to new consumers and markets.1.2.