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In the west coast technology corridor and heartland of services and products related to ERP software, Santa Monica maintains an established position. For developers, consultants, hosting solutions and retailers of ERP software, Santa Monica has provided a base of operations and a variety of available employment positions even during the economic downturn. While many California communities have seen their software base erode and shift due to the current downstream shift in implementation services for ERP software, Santa Monica has sustained no lasting damage and is still a minor hub for ERP consultant services.
If you’re looking for work, especially if you’ve taken a company through an entire integrated ERP implementation at least once, you may want to consider Santa Monica as a destination point. If you’re willing to relocate, the weather is beautiful of course. And if your ERP platform and application experience is broad, consistent and proven, Santa Monica may be the right place to find a new position. Regarding its role in the history of ERP software, Santa Monica and other central and southern California communities bore witness to many of the earliest MRP system implementations in the manufacturing sector during the early 1990s. These early developers, business managers and business solution consultants witnessed the successes and failures of the first resource planning systems and understood the importance of efficient functionality and effective employee training. When ERP systems began to evolve away from manufacturing and into the mainstream business world, Santa Monica ERP sales and service based businesses reaped many of the benefits. During the approach of Y2K, when fully integrated ERP business solution implementations were more widespread than they had ever been before, software communities flourished and saw a corresponding rise in property values and population increases.
As time brings changes to ERP software, Santa Monica technology oriented firms remain flexible. Now that large enterprise level ERP market growth has slowed, the software community is observing a shift. Small businesses are embracing increasingly accessible business management tools and providers and vendors are now competing to edge their way into available small business market share. This may suggest a bright future for ERP software, Santa Monica and similar communities, and the increasingly enmeshed, symbiotic relationship between business and technology. More available market share and more competition means more customized products, an increasing landscape of small, diverse and industry specific providers, and a refreshing infusion of innovation and its inherent economic rewards. Whatever the future holds for the nation’s economy, ERP software and services are changing and growing. Small communities form the backbone of this change and growth, and small businesses are poised to see it through. As the economy expands, so will the innovation and availability of scaled ERP platforms.
Erin Sweeney
ERP Software Santa Monica
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