ERP hits its quarter century

Posted on 27 Mar 2015 by Malcolm Wheatley

Far from moribund, Enterprise Resource Planning software continues to evolve, finds IT Contributing Editor Malcolm Wheatley.

Believe it or not, it’s exactly 25 years since analyst firm Gartner Group coined the term Enterprise Resource Planning, commonly abbreviated to ‘ERP’. Now a vast $25 billion global market, it is still dominated by the German software company that Gartner had in mind when coining the term: SAP, which together with Oracle accounts for…

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