ERP Industry: both internal and external difficulties continue
In the current ERP industry is concerned, to borrow a famous quote, "This is a best of times, this is a worst of times."Recalled in 1999 to the present decade of the proposed projects, and within ten years, the domestic ERP market has gone through a scratch, from there to a good one in-depth development process.
1999-2000, the major domestic software vendors of financial software are still in the honeymoon period, but have been founded in ERP sector test the water ERP market. In 2001, domestic software companies began to aggressively voicing support for ERP software market. Began in 2002, with the Government to promote and market speculation, the domestic software vendors started to use acquisitions and other means to their ERP products to market. But many are not yet mature, ERP in the ordinary Indian enterprises is still a kind of superior feeling, has become an overseas ERP giant's paradise. 03-04 years is the concept of chaos for two years, a variety of concepts related to ERP speculation over the sky to fly "beyond ERP", "ERP withered flowers" or even "the end of ERP", real products are still immature. In 2005, we began to spread ERP banner to lower prices, the market rise, supply chain, plus a simple production function of the ERP products began to gradually applied, domestic enterprises began to eager to have launched. Starting this year, is also a domestic ERP software vendors began to exceed foreign ERP software vendors in the domestic share. 06-07 years, two years are the ERP software products, the fastest two-year maturity, but also the fastest growing market for two years. 2008 to 2009, the market into close melee state of competition, especially in 2009, even those foreign firms, such as giant SAP, IBM are facing performance challenges.
Today, in the vigorous ERP business process, as the ERP practitioners, our ability to stop and answer the following questions:
1. India's ERP applications to customers but how many? Bring many benefits?
2. There is no application whether or not now be launched ERP? If you want to, on how to commence its own ERP, in order to achieve utility maximization, risk minimization, cost-control standards?
These issues have been entangled and confused with many customers this limited the level of the relationship between author, in this just to do initiate hope that many senior industry can conduct in-depth analysis and for many customers.
External market troubles
Many small and medium enterprises, the product transformation fast. Market, to take promotions, discounts and member prices and other means fierce competition, fast-changing market, many small and medium enterprises live bitter tired. Money to spend energy input of manpower engaged in ERP, seems a bit distant. Forget, or on a simple Invoicing bar.
The internal difficulties
The implementation of ERP software, customers had also faced downward extension of troubles. Example, at present more and more applications to stay in production order level, the workshop process a little touched. Even if applied to the process level, then the production site data, is also faced with also either need to be integrated MES, or require manual input disturbance.
At the same time, ERP deepening in many enterprise applications, is also facing the following problems
1. First in command, there are several number one really had time to learn the application of ERP software.
2. Indian enterprises low-cost, mobile operators frequently, just learned of the situation has gone Who will save.
3. An earlier start for the information technology business, the problem of information silos still exist and restricted to technical, financial, cost and other reasons, the future for a long period of time is still difficult to solve.
4 Considerations of cost and quality. You want to deepen the application, as long as the investment money to buy hardware and software, recruitment of staff, in fact, is not difficult, but as a business, the cost is that the enterprises must take into account an important factor.
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