Enterprise Resource Planning

Belchamp Walter ERP Consulting Services.

Basically the electronic systems for companies buying and selling things.

ERP systems cover a range of activities that companies are involved from finance, procurement, sales and HR. The theory behind this is that all the activities are contained in a single connected system.

In a previous life I qualified as an SAP Certified Professional. The guise was in the form of an ABAP programmer. Advanced Business Application Progam

Now it is some years on, SAP still seem to be a "player" in the computer/digital age.

What I now wonder is where this really places itself with respect to the part that the Internet plays in the world of e-Commerce?

My understanding is that there is an involvement by Oracle in the implementation of mySQL databases that are available on-line. The "back-end" of such ERP systems always revolved around the data-base, this (in my day) was either an IBM, Oracle, Informix or another "Johnny-come-lately" relational tables.

A comment on ERP systems

I am not sure of the relevance of ERP systems in 2026. e-Commerce and web-based services have progressed tremendously since my days in ERP and databased systems.

Having been retired for a while now my interest is putely academic but I d wonder that what the person I know actually does in JDE