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ERP History began with early attempts at calculating machines in the 1940’s. In the 1960s, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is born in the early 1960s from a joint effort between J.I. Case, the manufacturer of tractors and other construction machinery, and partner IBM. Material Requirements Planning or MRP is the initial effort. This application software serves as the method for planning and scheduling materials for complex manufactured products. The central feature of all ERP systems is a shared database that supports multiple functions used by different business units. In practice, this means that employees in different divisions—for example, accounting and sales—can rely on the same information for their specific needs.
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SAP1972 Five engineers in Mannheim, Germany begin the company, SAP (Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung). The purpose in creating SAP is to produce and market standard software for integrated business solutions.
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ORACLELarry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL). He heard about the IBM System R database from an article in the IBM Research Journal provided by Oates. SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc (RSI) in 1979, then again to Oracle Systems Corporation in 1982
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MICROSOFTMicrosoft ERP solutions were acquired at different points.
Microsoft Dynamics SL was originally known as Solomon Software and was acquired by Great Plains who was later acquired by Microsoft. Microsoft Dynamics AX, originally called Axapta, was a solution that was created by a group of executives who left Navision. It was later acquired by Navision before Navision was acquired by Microsoft. Microsoft Dynamics NAV formally Navision Financials, was developed by Navision. |
