For example, our global, single-instance ERP system runs 53 country payrolls on the SAP ERP Human Capital Management solution and our SAP NetWeaver Portal supports over 2 million members of the SAP Community Network.
Additionally, traffic police organizations in a large number of cities are actively using Facebook to interact with citizens and respond to routine complaints of parking and traffic-related issues (the page of Delhi Traffic Police has over 160, 000 likes), while the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai now uses SAP ERP to run the megacity of 20 million residents.
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In the short to medium term the SAP architecture for its ERP and other SAP Business Suite Applications will look like this diagram, which I adapted from one Poonen drew for me on a whiteboard.
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Infor is currently the third largest ERP vendor after SAP and Oracle.
And we were able to do it without incurring the costs of an ERP system like SAP ECC, which, in the end, was simply too big for a company of our size.
Some knowledge of ERP systems, such as SAP, would be an asset.
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Together, Salesforce.com and Infor will be able to offer a complete suite of CRM and ERP products and compete with SAP, Oracle and Microsoft.
Large companies run their businesses using enterprise resource planning, or ERP, from firms such as SAP (SAP) and Oracle (ORCL).
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And herein lies the nagging doubt that many SAP customers, influencers and employees still have: Can SAP can fully transform its old-school ERP ways in order to un-tether back end systems and deal with critical mobility pain points like security and scalability?
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My own employer, SAP, has reinvented itself from back-office ERP software purveyor to become a real-time platform company delivering break-through technologies that are transforming business.
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During testing SAP had realized that the kind of people who would be logging into their ERP portals would be chief executives of small companies not middle managers at big ones and had to shift gears toward making it easier to see a whole business from one dashboard.
With the new launch, SAP is focusing on cost-conscious small businesses to expand the reach of its ERP solutions by leveraging the on-demand software model.
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