So what do you know about Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)? If you are like
Jason (who makes no apologies for the photo), then you know they are big in
scope and complexity. What you should also know is that ERP is moving to the
Internet. However, ERP systems are an ornery lot. Withdrawn and stoic, they
were designed to integrate a business internally. Yet the reality of
e-business is demanding that these systems come out and play, interact with
the other backend systems, and share once in a while.
Luckily, ERP systems really do not have a personality. However, over the past
decade, they have been the life of the party. Generating billions in revenue
for companies like SAP AG, Oracle, Peoplesoft, J.D. Edwards, and Baan, these
systems were the hottest software going in the 1990s. Designed to equip
enterprises with the capabilities to manage, monitor, and integrate f... (more)