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This paper reports results of a survey on the experiences of CFOs of the top-800 Australian companies with ERP-systems and alternative systems integration concepts. The main findings are: ERP-users achieve significantly higher levels of business and systems integration than non-ERP-users and the'scope of ERP'has a significant positive effect on this relationship. Higher levels of achieved business and systems integration lead to significantly higher information systems quality. ERP-users do not achieve significantly higher levels of information systems quality. The most important conclusion is that the quality of an information system is a function of the achieved level of integration, and not of the integration concept used (eg ERP).