[citation needed] ERP5 was created and is still mostly developed by Nexedi,[3] an open source software publisher based in Lille (France), Dakar (Sénégal), Tokyo (Japan), Campos (Brazil) and Dresden (Germany).

[14] Active research is currently being done on projects called jIO[15] and RenderJs,[16] both of which will contribute to a future responsive web interface of ERP5 that will include shifting part of the processes performed on the server to the client.

In order to add discrete event simulation capabilities to ERP5 as well as to design future interface components, Nexedi is currently a contributing partner to an FP7 project.

[20] This approach departs from data structure oriented modeling and from the idea that ERP implementation should at the same time change the processes of an organization and its information system.

An alternative approach, based on Software as a Service, was later suggested by Carvalho and Johansson[22] and implemented by SlapOS[23] (previously TioLive LLC[24]) which now provides ERP5 SaaS.

Based on a small list of questions,[25] which any CEO of a company can answer to in less than an hour, a standard ERP5 configuration is generated with preset business processes and custom nomenclatures (so-called categories in ERP5 terminology).