Easy and affordable ERP for small businesses
October 9, 2009 by Gavin
Filed under IMGavinKing Contributors
You might have heard of SAP systems. It’s a software package deployed by a major percentage of medium sized and large enterprises all over the planet. The objective of the system is to connect the whole company together and enable hundreds and often thousands of employees to record, share and recall knowledge about the physical and financial processes of the enterprise. Significant organisations are lead by intelligent people who understand the strategic value of this category of software, such as how it can give them an appreciation of why problems are occurring inside their business or where there might be opportunity for improvements.
This type of system is often known as ERP. It is very complicated, very expensive and can take along time to deploy. A deployment of ERP software is a significant investment but this doesn’t stand in the way of large companies buying these applications.
Until this year software similar to this was not feasible or financially viable for tiny firms. As a result small enterprises have not been aware of the significant benefits that ERP systems can offer. Tiny enterprises have been wrongly convinced by aggressive software like Sage Software and Intuit that small business accounting software is what they need. These systems most often have no functionality to allow their users to connect the whole organisation or undertake common tasks such as customer relationship management.
The achievements of Web based CRM software from enterprises like Salesforce.com is a damning testimony of the small business accounting software firms misleading or misunderstanding the small business community.
It is for this reason that small business ERP enterprises similar to Salesorder.com have begun to make great progress in the market. They provide software as a service which includes all of the key functionality a small enterprise requires at an affordable price. What is even more fascinating is these packages are a cinch to operate and can be rolled out rapidly.
Now ERP systems are no longer the privilege of big organisations.




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