Small and Medium Businesses Informatization Managment: Main Trends of Development in Russia

Abstract

The system architecture of a small business must also provide financial management, personnel, procurement, manufacturing, sales, etc. Due to the fact that in small and medium-sized businesses there are combined functions of ownership and management, information management system must provide accurate and up-to-date information about finance and manufacturing resources. We have reviewed the structure of the Russian market of software products for small and medium-sized businesses and explained the leading position of some companies. We conducted a survey of SEOs of SME and employees of the companies ERP systems vendors, who showed quite a symmetric assessment of development informatization of SME.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n24p165