Sep 272017

TechTarget has added an article called See The Top ERP Systems And Decide Which Best Fits Your Business. While it does not actually feature the promised “see’ part it does present a succinct listing and elaboration on the bigger names in the market.

The article does include succinct information on the availability of different environments (on-premises, hybrid and Cloud) and indicative pricing for the software.

Several comments are worthwhile here. Despite the wave of consolidation undertaken by participants big and small the pie remains fragmented and customers still have ample choice. There are eight listings, although several fall under the ‘Oracle’ banner. What is more companies like Unit4 (the old Agresso software) or Aptean (the old Made2Manage and Ross software) are not even included in the article. Small business ERP, which is mostly newer born in the Cloud companies, like Zoho and Xero and also QuickBooks, are also excluded. Microsoft has made the transition to its Dynamics 365 monicker and dropped the old nomenclature and designations (like GP, AX, etc.) although the software is obviously still there. There are also two categories of ERP, which are omitted. The first is the vertical products that serve specific industries. Those abound. The second are the myriad of solutions devised by regional SIs (system integrator) and ISVs (Independent Software Vendor) out there.

Finally, noteworthy is how the open source ERP vendors that were taking shape ten years ago have come to naught. Compiere, for example, was absorbed by Aptean. Opentaps is still out there however.

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