In the age of Low cost - high quality development tools, ranging from open source to .Net and volume of Affordable offshore development talent- having to make a choice to purchase restrictive- high license and support fee ERP's is no longer a must!
These global resources now make it very affordable to develop your own WERP application (Web Enterprise Resource planning)
Most organizations don't realize the true toll - a full blown ERP application installation has on an organization and the true cost of integration when is all said and done.
This approach can be very dangerous to an organization in several ways;
1. The organization is now forced to change solid proven process to fit a canned application
2. Financial indigestion with upfront costs in company focus, application costs, integration costs and lost productivity to name a few.
3. The most dangerous and stealth ill affect is- focus change from a Business Development mind set -to one of internal application indigestion.
4. Huge learning curve for staff.
The real advantage to an organically grown Web-ERP is its implementation is built to fit not only the companies budget, but its ability to digest change into the organization at a rate that allows the organization to continue to Develop New Business and not disrupt its mind set- WHICH HAS TO REMAIN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTRIC!
The WERP approach as well really fine tunes existing processes to a fine point by removing subjectivity -so the organization actually gains in productivity while defining solid process into code.
