What makes the ERP packages differ each other

There are various ERP packages available in the market. All ERP packages integrates different departments in an organization. Apart from telecommunications industry ERP can be made available to every kind of industry.

What is it that makes ERP differ from eachother?

Here are some of the insights into it:

1) Well, reliablility of the software is the first issue which comes in customer’s mind. An ERP software is said to be reliable for a particular customer when the vendor supplying that ERP software has esteemed and satified customers which cater into that industry verticles in which he operates.

2) The percentage of successful implementation sucess a particular vendor has.

3) The technology on which a particular software operates. for e.g. an independent technology like ABAP used by SAP or with the one which is provide by Microsoft (Infor uses the .NET technology for its ERP).

4) Support a particular vendor can provide over a period of time.

5) What are the extra features embedded into the system which over a period of time can benefit your business.

6) Software should be having all the necessary report generation facility according to what a particular business wants.

7) Atlast a customer should analyse as to what ROI would a particular ERP package, for which he is opting, can give him.