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| Dec 21, 2005 7:40 am |
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re: On-Line Enterprise Automation |
Chris Stolk
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Hi Ryan,
First, there is no panacea that covers every Enterprise: each Enterprise, and every other company, has unique requirements. Therefore, trying to build one system that does everything is an exercise in futility, uless you have gobs of money, in which case we need to have a much longer conversation;-)
In general, the Accounting piece is very important. Whether it is the most important piece is debatable. You don't need and accounting system if you don't have sales, so the CRM piece is pretty valuable as well. If you get the sales, but have no products to ship, then you have more problems. So there is no one piece that is most imnportant. At any given time, depending on your business and level of automation, the most important piece is generally the one that you don't have or is not the right solution.
There are very good solutions out there for many aspects of your business. Aside from Quickbooks, there are a pluthera of solutions (MS Dynamics, Peachtree, MYOB, SAP, Oracle, etc.) that can do one or many Enterprise Management tasks. Some are better than others, some cover more than others, and soome cost more than others.
A lot of solution providers are now focusing on integrating best-of-breed solutions to come up with Enterpriuse management tools that go beyond the traditional ERP/Accounting packages. While SAP has been pretty successful in building a monolithic application, there are many shortcomings and pitfalls in the approach, not to mention that the price tag can be daunting for any company not in the Global Fortune 5000.
Hope my 2 cents helped. Best of luck in your endeavor!
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