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Globalization forces, ever-changing customer demands, and unrelenting financial reporting requirements are compelling enterprises to reconfigure their business processes with the right information tools to compete in the new world order. As changing market conditions beget new business practices, organizations should map their strategies to the following approaches:

* Organizational agility has to start with an integrated and robust business system that's scalable, easy to maintain in-house, and flexible enough to harness available resources to better forecast, execute, and extend corporate objectives.

* Business agility calls for continuous business-process improvement that works best in small teams with ready access to real-time information and reliable data to anticipate change, generate innovative ideas, and reach decisions that are based on market-driven feedback and enterprise wide collaboration.

* Legacy systems will have to be replaced if they fail to provide the flexibility to adapt to the latest market conditions resulting from mergers, consolidations, demand shifts, or other changes that require constant adjustments of business processes and IT resources to support them.

This paper examines the benefits of deploying flexible ERP applications in attaining agility and meeting financial targets in the forms of enhanced productivity and operational efficiency. It also looks at the role of Agresso Business World products in helping companies maximize their value through the right combination of process modeling and information delivery.