• Mergers and acquisitions have shortened the list of potential ERP vendors for highereducation institutions. Further shakeout could leave North American institutions with four major players.

• The higher-education ERP landscape is quickly emerging from a post-Internet hangover to a period where ERP II issues such as integration, collaboration and Internet architectures will predominate.

• Higher-education institutions will make ASP decisions based on business benefits, return on investment, the viability of the provider and their ability to deliver to required service levels.

• E-learning and e-commerce ASPs will find higher acceptance from the higher-education community than ERP suites of applications through 2006.

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