Jason Broom

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 Withdrawn and stoic, they were designed to integrate a business internally.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)