Editing JD Edwards (section)

===Enterprise Resource Planning concept developed===
As the majority of JD Edwards's customers were [[Small and medium enterprises|medium-sized companies]], clients did not have large-scale software implementations. There was a basic business need for all accounting to be tightly integrated. As McVaney would explain in 2002, integrated systems were created precisely because "you can’t go into a moderate-sized company and just put in a payroll. You have to put in a payroll and job cost, general ledger, inventory, fixed assets and the whole thing. [[SAP AG|SAP]] had the same advantage that JD Edwards had because we worked on smaller companies, we were forced to see the whole broad picture."<ref name="cwhonors2002"/>  This requirement was relevant to both JDE clients in the US and Europe and their European competitor SAP, whose typical clients were much smaller than the American [[Fortune 500]] firms. McVaney and his company developed what would be called [[Enterprise Resource Planning]] (ERP) software in response to that business requirement.