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Home » Have ERP Vendors Yet to Really Penetrate World of Small and Mid-Sized Businesses?

Have ERP Vendors Yet to Really Penetrate World of Small and Mid-Sized Businesses?

September 5, 2012
CIO

Small businesses often rely on long-since outgrown systems such as Quickbooks, lashed together with a range of best-of-breed point solutions, each one with its own architecture, user interface, and data input needs, often requiring the same data to be input multiple times.

Try as they might, legacy ERP players have not yet made a dent in the vast and untapped market that is small and mid-sized businesses. So instead they raise maintenance fees for existing clients, acquire and graft on point solutions, and look for new technology plays to get existing customers interested in spending more money.

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Keywords: supply chain solutions, supply chain systems, supply chain management IT, ERP for small and mid-sized enterprises

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