ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning — the large integrated systems organisations installed from the 1990s onward to run finance, procurement, HR and inventory in one place.
The canonical example of expensive, ubiquitous technology that digitised existing processes without changing any of them. The comparison is not flattering.
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