Careers As an Enterprise Business Apps Professional

When things started to settle down after the dot-com bubble burst, one of the most sought after career besides software development was that of an ERP professional. During this period, most large enterprises were undergoing phenomenal change and ERP as a career was in great demand both in India as well as abroad. And it still remains a financially rewarding career option for professionals to pursue. Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP for short, has already proven its worth to organizations and become a backbone for them. Most organizations have realized that they can't sustain simply by automating their processes; the integration among different businesses and departments of an organization is required for seamless functioning. Today not only large enterprises, but small and medium organizations have also started to opt for ERP implementations, and even major ERP solution providers are coming up with packages specific to requirements of a particular industry. Thus, ERP professionals are in much demand even during the current economic slowdown, as companies look to adopt efficient Enterprise Business Applications (EBA) and processes.

What's EBA?

There is no single solution or software package that can cater to all needs of an enterprise. Therefore, besides ERP there are other enterprise business applications that cater to various requirements of an enterprise. EBA is a software that is used at the organization level for performing business functions such as finance management, procurement, production planning and execution, sales & distribution and includes applications like:

• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
• Master Data Management (MDM)
• Enterprise Portals
• Process Integration (PI)
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Enterprise Content Management