The question is not if, but when. If a company is still at the beginning of its history, it may still be possible to manage orders, customer data and stock lists using Excel and the like. However, this type of data is not becoming less. The number of people working with this data is also growing. Individual workstations are becoming departments. The demands on company management are growing. Decisions are becoming bigger and riskier. Accounting must always provide reliable figures on which these decisions can be made. In short, the workload is growing.
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Although the ERP systems for manufacturing companies are partly similar to those of service companies, they are completely different on closer inspection.
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For some years now, SMEs have been the target group that many business software manufacturers have been focussing on. Most companies in the ERP sector still see real growth opportunities here in a highly competitive market. Those being courted in this way can choose from a wide range of products and service providers. On closer inspection, however, the choice seems limited. Depending on the current trend, everyone is blowing more or less the same horn and the interested parties are uniformly covered with buzzwords. At the moment, everyone is talking about SAAS and clout computing; not so long ago, BPM was the hot topic before SOA.
Read MoreIs the selection of an ERP software really that difficult?
Those who have the choice are spoilt for choice. This is especially true for companies that want to introduce a new ERP solution today. Depending on which statistics you look at, there are up to 500 different providers in German-speaking countries.
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