While the global economic downturn that began in late 2008 is slowing the overall ERP software market, there are some bright spots for ERP vendors. There is anecdotal evidence that small and midsize businesses (SMB) are more likely than large enterprises to be moving forward with ERP projects, even as one analyst firm says the ERP market has slipped to near-zero growth. At GSI Group, a midsize but global manufacturer of grain bins and other agricultural equipment, it took all of five minutes for a project steering committee to decide to proceed with a second phase of its global implementation of ERP software from SAP.
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