ERP systems are software solutions that help businesses improve their management, performance, and transparency. How do they do that? Almost every business has financial data about their income and expenses. They also have records of their previous sales. Some businesses with inventory have stock data. These are some of the many data sets that a business's operations can generate. To run the business, these data are essential. ERP makes it easier to access these data by centralizing it, integrating it for better performance, and coordinating it for more control.