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What are the pros and cons of small ERP vendors?
We often times hear that smaller ERP vendors are more flexible and that they can provide their customers with better services than bigger vendors. I tried to summarize the pros and cons of working with smaller ERP vendors in this post: http://blog.technologyevaluation.com/blog/2011/12/15/working-with-smaller-erp-vendors-the-pros-and-the-cons/
What do you think?
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Nice discussion at the original site. The odds are heavily stacked against the small vendor (being one I can strongly vouch for it!)
And its totally natural. ERPs are mission critical to the company and it does not make sense to select a small vendor unless the benefit is very big or the decision maker is immature.
So how can small vendors turn it around? What I see as a potential game changer is the cloud and web as a platform. If small vendors can reach a much bigger audience faster, they can increase the speed of learning cycles. We are just beginning to see this in ERPNext. We are no way competing with the big vendors, but our rate of improvement is much faster than them, although from a much lower base.
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