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Executive Summary

ERP systems are strangely named.
In this article, we cover how ERP systems got their strange name.

Introduction
Often people do not consider why ERP systems have the name that they do. The story is not what most people expect.
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How Gartner Coined the Term by Adjusting the Term MRP II
In the 1980s, Gartner took the term “MRP II,” which was manufacturing resource planning coined by Oliver Wight and created the term ERP. This software category became the most successful application category in history. 
Why …

… ERP vendors, as there are a lot — but if we take just those six companies, they represent a good chunk of the overall ERP yearly sales.
The Concentration of Large Vendors as a Percentage of ERP Market Share
If we have very large vendors who represent a high percentage of ERP sales and there is the first-hand experience of their lock-in behavior, then it is not an ethereal situation where we can’t make accurate, definitive statements about the negative implications of lock-in.
The argument by closed source ERP proponents is that proposing that there is not …

Executive Summary

ERP systems that are sold by proprietary vendors result in a high degree of control over the customers by the vendor.
Open source ERP vendors do not impose these highly expensive restrictions on customers.

Introduction
Open source ERP pays so many dividends because ERPNext does not control customers for how they adjust the system. This is one of the great underappreciated benefits of open source ERP. If you go with any of the closed source ERP options, you get locked in. Now you are taking orders from the vendor in terms of how to manage things. This is …

Executive Summary

A little-discussed topic in enterprise software is the level of analysis performed by IT decision-makers.
This article provides a topic related to food choices to emphasize what people know prior to a decision.

Introduction
What are decisions based upon? This is one of the most interesting questions in my research.
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If you read the traditional media or attend conferences, you are told that IT decisions are based upon rational decision making. And that senior people in organizations are well educated and “know” what they …

… much about nutrition. In this way, McDonald’s can be viewed, as other fast food companies, as taking advantage of the lack of nutrition knowledge. This same pattern applies to ERP vendors and their customers. 
McDonald’s Versus ERP Systems
As I cover in the book, The Real Story Behind ERP, ERP systems have no history of paying back their investment, but all of the ERP vendors, the ERP consulting firms, and analyst firms that are paid large amounts by ERP vendors (like Gartner, Forrester, and IDG) all agree that you MUST have an ERP system.
ERP is the McDonald …