Well, honestly, because of my background in law , I have never interacted (or heard about) with ERP. Certainly, the back office of law offices must work with it to organize accounting, finance, human resources, etc.
Working for law firms, I have experience with a software that organizes and systematizes all documents such as agreements, companies’ by-laws, law suits, indentures, etc. The fundamental objective of this kind of software in the law industry is to make it fast and easy for the lawyers to locate documents in the data base. These intra-search storage software must ‘’speak the same language’’ of other systems of these companies. The installation and fine tuning of the new software were not very easy and cheap. The license of the software is about 1 million dollars, and another thousand dollars are necessary to fully integrate the new software to the old stuff there.
I imagine that with ERP would work the same way. So, companies buy the ERP and struggle to implement it in their own business. In fact, it is a good opportunity for IT specialists to make the systems talk to each other and smile with the fat billable hours. Answering the question whether companies should adapt to ERP or it should be the other way around, I believe companies would be better off if ERP were designed to fit each companies, i.e., the designer of the EPR should be in charge of developing this system in a way that make the life of their customer easy. It is not fare to sell a product half ready to be implemented by a entity that is not an specialist on the IT field.
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