It has its uses in enterprise environments but it takes a special kind of business-y person to setup, configure and maintain. I worked at a small startup with

It has its uses in enterprise environments but it takes a special kind of business-y person to setup, configure and maintain. I worked at a small startup with at its peak 30 people (of which 10 in sales/marketing) and we implemented Netsuite which is a similar ERP suite bought by Oracle. It took 2 expensive consultants a couple months to setup and I believe it did CRM, invoicing, accounting, taxes, prospecting, email signups and newsletters, customer support, inventory tracking and probably a few more things. Every time we wanted to change some process we had to bring the consultants back in. In my eyes it was too expensive and too early in the startup process to be implementing something like that.