Glossary of Enterprise Applications Terminology
Part Two: Just-in-Time to Extensible Markup Language
P.J. Jakovljevic - December 25, 2004

Introduction

ERP (enterprise resources planning) was an important step in an ongoing evolution of computer tools that began in the 1960s. Each evolutionary step is built on the fundamentals and principles developed within the previous one. As systems developed over time, a continuous stream of new terminology surfaced...