Giant tech, small package

April 2007 from The Financial Post – “Historically, small businesses across Canada haven't been as switched on to technology as their larger counterparts. That's partly because the investment and organization necessary to roll out a big IT project has been beyond them. That left key technologies such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer-relationship management (CRM) almost exclusively in the realm of big business…”

180 View – We don’t agree with the premise that ERP is only for large companies. ERP systems provide a business solution across most if not all departments in one organization. With this definition, QuickBooks and Simply Accounting are also examples of ERP systems. Nevertheless, it has been difficult to obtain all the functionality in the higher end systems at low costs until recently. One way to lower costs is to use the ASP (Application Service Provider) or SaaS (Software as a Service) model as is described in the article with NetSuite.