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Demystifying Enterprise Resource Planning softwares and explaining the concepts in plain English. No matter if you're an executive officer, IT consultant, software developer or a business manager, you've heard people talk about ERP in meetings and sessions.  And probably a half-dozen of ERP providers have already come knocking at your office door to present their products. No doubt that you have spent hours searching the Internet on what exactly is an ERP and how can it help an organisation.  But if you're still in doubt, this writing may help you.  I'll try to explain the golden characteristics of an ERP in a simple language; so please bear with me. The Definition ERP is an integrated, business process oriented and best practice based information system that helps managers better understand the situation of their organisations. So a software that is called an ERP is: Integrated Business process oriented Best practice based and its ultimate goal is to help ma...

The difference between "Comprehensive Software Design" and "General Software Design" and why Comprehensive is the only way. Let's assume a simple categorisation of business into trade and manufacturing. Most of the companies that are active in a category, arrange and manage their processes - despite different fields of business- inspired by a similar and close to optimal pattern.  For example all trade companies share the same processes and concepts such as sales region, sales commission, petty cash and etc.  The pattern is called best practice . Good Now, imagine that you have designed and implemented information software for 25 trade companies so far; naturally resulting in your extensive knowledge of trade firms' processes and requirements -put simply, best practice.  In other words, you do know what the customer wants and needs. What happens if you decide to design a comprehensive information system for trade firms? As you know their requirements...