<p>I've been working on an interesting case, and I'm hearing a lot of software programs being mentioned in the course of the trial, like SAP and PeopleSoft.</p>
<p>I was curious as to what major in college one would pursue where they would learn these programs. They seem to deal with payroll, so I'm assuming they'd be business major courses, but not sure what major specifically they would fall under.</p>
<p>Thanks for any info. We have a friend switching out of engineering to business, but he's really gifted on computers, so this might be a good fit for him.</p>
<p>i haven’t heard of People Soft, but SAP is currently the one of the industry leaders in Enterprise Resource Technology. SAP is used in countless companies for everything from payroll to route planning. What major you should take depends on what you want to do with it; if you want to work in Supply Chain and/or Logistics, you should study Industrial Engineering or Supply Chain Management. It is also used in Accounting and Finance. If you were a Computer Science major and worked for SAP, you would be a developer or something of that nature.</p>
<p>PeopleSoft was a big independent provider of ERP software that was acquired by Oracle in 2005. I think Oracle had its own ERP software and decided to buy out their competitor. You don’t learn either Oracle or SAP ERP software systems at a university. I believe both Oracle and SAP offer their own classes that can lead to certification. There are a lot of job possibilities with Oracle and SAP software (as a skilled user at a company, consultant to those companies, customized installation etc). Degrees in Industrial Engineering, Accounting or Management Information Systems-Accounting would be particularly useful.</p>