You have probably heard of SAP systems. It’s a software platform deployed by the majority of medium sized and big businesses all over the world. The purpose of the platform is to join the whole enterprise together and let hundreds and often thousands of employees to store, share and view information concerning the physical and financial processes of the company. Significant organisations are run by smart people who appreciate the strategic value of this category of software, such as how it can give them an appreciation of why difficulties are happening inside their organisation or where there might be opportunity for refinements.

This category of platform is often known as ERP. It is very sophisticated, very costly and can take months and often years to implement. A deployment of ERP software is a significant investment but this doesn’t prevent big firms buying these applications.

Until this year software like this was not available or financially viable for tiny companies. As a result small companies have not been aware of the immense benefits that ERP systems can offer. Small companies have been hoodwinked by aggressive vendors such as Sage Software and Intuit that small business accounting software is the solution. These platforms most often have no functionality to enable their owners to join together the whole business or undertake common tasks such as customer relationship management.

The success of Web based CRM software from vendors like Salesforce.com is a damning testimony of the small business accounting software vendors misleading or misunderstanding the market.

It is for this reason that small business ERP businesses in the same category as Salesorder.com have started to make great progress in the market. They sell on demand software which includes all of the key features a small firm needs at very low cost. What is even more compelling is these applications are easy to use and can be delpoyed quickly.

Now ERP applications are no longer the privilege of large organisations.