What are the new trends for ERP software in 2011? Which are the best ERP solutions for small business, accounting, and manufacturing management? This article will try to give our readers simplest answers for these two questions. It will also provide an easy to use guide for selecting a top ERP software solution for this year.
ERP (enterprise resources planning) is famous for its high costs and difficult implementations. Lofty software and hardware prices, risks of ERP failures, long ERP implementation time, and high system maintenance costs are the main reasons that scare away many potential users. But several new trends have come to improve this situation.
How to Reduce Costs and Risks of an ERP System?
Today many ERP suppliers have started to provide software as a service (SaaS) solutions for the reduction of ERP costs. For example, a user can choose a Web-based online SaaS ERP system, which allows him or her to pay month without high initial costs.
But a company may have to give up its full control over computer data if it chooses a SaaS ERP solution. To solve this problem, software developers use cloud computing technology for their SaaS ERP systems. An ERP on cloud solution can help users fully control their sensitive data across different hardware and software systems, including various types of computer servers and platforms.
For example, Netsuite is ERP on the cloud that helps users largely reduce software costs and hardware investment. It provides an integrated accounting, CRM, inventory and ecommerce system at low cost. A user can also find several other ERP on the cloud systems on the Internet. Please compare their service packages and prices before choosing a right solution.
Low-cost ERP Software Applications: Download Lists
On the other hand, some companies provide open source ERP software packages for costs reduction. A user can download and install these packages for free. Open source software can reduce half of the costs of an ERP system. This kind of solutions includes Adempiere, Compiere, Openbravo, Opentaps, OpenERP, OFBiz, Tryton, and many others.
At the same time, some other companies provide low-cost ERP software applications. For example, Tally ERP 9.0 is priced at a few hundreds of US dollars. Though small ERP programs like Tally do not cover as many functional modules as major ERP suppliers like Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision), Oracle e-Business Suite, SAGE Pro ERP and SAP Business Suite, they provide low-cost solutions for small business.
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