The effect of Information Technology (IT) on the success of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) has always been a controversial issue among stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to answer some questions regarding this ambiguous issue, like: " ,is the use of information technology a critical success factor of reengineering ?. "Is it possible to reengineer the business without the existence of IT sophistications?. what are the facilitations that have been contributed by IT to successful

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... gineering. The methodology that has been adopted in the study is reviewing the literature to explore answers for such questions. It was found that IT has a critical role in the success of BPR project in achieving dramatic improvements, at the same time BPR introduced well defined strategies to make an organization heavily extracts the benefits from such enablers with huge capabilities and to employ IT correctly and efficiently.