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A new dawn for small business technology

November 15th, 2009

You may have heard of SAP software. It’s a software application used by the majority of medium sized and big businesses all over the world. The purpose of the software application is to join the entire organisation together and allow hundreds and often thousands of employees to record, share and view information concerning the physical and financial processes of the firm. Significant organisations are managed by savvy individuals who understand the strategic benefits of this type of software, such as how it can give them an understanding of why difficulties are happening inside their organisation or where there might be opportunity for refinements.

This category of system is often known as ERP. It is very sophisticated, very expensive and can take months and often years to deploy. An installation of ERP software can cost ten’s of millions of dollars but this doesn’t stop substantial companies procuring these systems.

Until this year software similar to this was not feasible or financially viable for tiny firms. As a result tiny firms have not been aware of the immense benefits that ERP systems can deliver. Tiny organisations have been wrongly convinced by predatory vendors like Sage Software and Intuit that small business accounting software is the solution. These applications most often have no capacity to allow their owners to join together the entire organisation or perform fundamental 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 small business community.

It is for this reason that small business ERP firms similar to Salesorder.com have started to make great strides in the market. They provide software as a service containing all of the major features a small organisation needs at very low cost. What is even more interesting is these systems are a cinch to use and can be delpoyed quickly.

At last ERP applications are no longer the privilege of substantial companies.