People soft is one of the popular ERP software and it became popular due to the human resource module that was present. The price of people soft ERP implementation will range in millions and the implementation and training costs will be separate. Most of the companies in a craze to implement ERP went for the people soft implementations spending millions of rupees and later found that the most of the modules in the people soft ERP was not needed for their company operations. In most of the cases, the ERP implementation will result in a big failure and the employee's resistance to change is often cited as the major reason for the failure in ERP implementation.

This trend of ERP failure was continuing and many firms became bankrupt and went out of business. Then arouse the trend of the customized software where the software gets changed according to the practices of the company instead of the other way around and hence customization became the key and the different modules were available separately. The payroll software programs arise as a result of this and many software companies started doing this as full time developing customized software based on the client requirements. The software company will deploy a functional consultant to the client place to get the software requirements and based on the requirements the modules will be developed and delivered to the client place. Most of the small businesses prefer the payroll software programs to be implemented in their firms.

The payroll software programs can be downloaded from the internet free of cost but most of them will be trial versions and not meeting the requirements of the firm. Hence it is better to customize the payroll software programs from a software concern according to the operations of the firm and implement it in the company and the employees will feel it very easy to change to the software as they are used to the company practices that were existing for a long time. The transformation for manual entry to the ERP style will be done smoothly without any problems and the implementation of the payroll software programs will be successful in most of the cases. Most of the companies develop their own proprietary software by using their own professionals and programmers and project the software as a critical success factor for the business. The companies have to shift to ERP and customized software in order to keep pace with the technology change.