A growing number of organizations delivering project-based services to customers seek business apps that more fully reflect that project focus and apply it to business-processes-powering project management, including project costing, time capture, and billing. Application delivery pros also often need apps that integrate and harmonize project management functionality with the financials and human capital management capabilities of enterprise resource planning (ERP) apps. This report highlights solutions from a group of ERP vendors providing these capabilities and identifies a number of project-based ERP customer best practices.