Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP Software Concept Developed
With the vast majority of JD Edwards' customers in the medium sized area, clients did not have the luxury of gigantic accounting software implementations. There was a basic business need for all accounting to be tightly integrated. As McVaney would explain in 2002, integrated systems were created precisely because "you can’t go into a moderate-sized company and just put in a payroll. You have to put in a payroll and job cost, general ledger, inventory, fixed assets and the whole thing. SAP had the same advantage that JD Edwards had because we were working on smaller companies, we were forced to see the whole broad picture." It was this requirement for both JDE clients in the USA and Europe as well as competitor SAP, whose typical clients were much smaller than the American fortune 500 firms. McVaney and his company, along with their European competitors developed what would be called ERP software in response to that business requirement.
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