And why all the same ERP?

    The conducted survey quite unequivocally showed that such an abbreviation is little known to the habrasociety. Surely they heard even less about ECM, CRM, SCM, CPM, BPM and other scary three-letter abbreviations.

    What is characteristic, there is no other way for beginner IT specialists to find out about the current state of affairs in the field of enterprise automation, except how to dig through it or work in this area. Universities do not teach this, they rarely learn. (By the way, I was very interested in the subject “information management”, which I met in the comments - what else was taught there?). Of course, people’s desire for self-education is encouraging, but the lack of at least an initial introduction to this topic in universities is not encouraging.

    Meanwhile, the direction of business automation, in my opinion, is one of the most likely ways that any student of an IT specialty will go after graduation. Already just because it is a very big business and a very large industry, and it’s almost impossible not to touch it anyway.

    For example, according to the Forbes 2000 list , among the largest world companies are companies whose lion's share of the revenue is from products and services in the field of business automation (creation and implementation of ERP, ECM, CRM, etc.). Consider the first few places:
    1. 37th place - IBM (WebSphere, Lotus, consulting).
    2. 63 place - Microsoft (relatively recently entered this area, but very loudly: Dynamics AX, NAV, CRM; SharePoint).
    3. 176 place - Oracle (a key product other than DBMS - Oracle Applications, portals).
    4. 213 place - Google (not yet very active in the corporate market, but clearly wants to go there).
    5. 319 place - SAP (all their business is ERP and consulting).
    6. 443 place - Accenture (of course, they are also involved in infrastructure matters, but consulting and implementation of ERP and other classes of systems is one of the main parts of the business, including in Russia).

    The rating of Russian companies is also headed by developers and integrators, for whom the topic of introducing automated enterprise management systems is a key one: NCC, Technoserv A / S, LANIT, IBS, CROC, Ai-Teco, 1C, Optima, etc.

    Look at the number of their employees. Imagine how many of their partners work in the development and implementation of business systems for the corporate market. Well, now the topic of ERP is interesting?

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