OK, but what is ERP?
A. Real programmers dont care about business peoples acronyms as long as they are paid $100/hr. True, but you should know this one: ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. “Enterprise Resource Planning is a collection of software programs which ties together all of an enterprise’s various functions–HR, finance, manufacturing, sales, etc. This software also lets management conduct analysis of this data to plan production, forecast sales, analyze quality, conduct E-business transactions and so on.” If you want to go beyond “so on” in that official definition by PeopleSoft Corp., let us explain what is not ERP. “Not-ERP” are old computer systems, custom-designed for each company in 1970s and 80s (mainframe, legacy systems, written in COBOL, Assembler). What do they do? They process, store information, and create reports. They have automated certain business processes like bank transactions in a way similar to an old electric typewriter jumping to a new line by itself when it reaches
