An empirical study in selecting Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: The relation between some of the variables involve on it. Size and Investment

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is one of the most important projects on business optimization than an enterprise could attempt. The rate of failure on ERP implementations keeps high. Selection process is a critical success factor. The paper presents the first results from empirical study where we found that there is a relation between size of the company and the amount of investment. Other enterprise systems that can be seen as important to include on the ERP are Business Intelligence and Customer Relationship Management. Evolutionary Computation, Multi Agent Systems and Petri Nets can be used as computational intelligence technics to model the ERP selection process.