Over the last two or three weeks, I have seen several news about Google and its product including Google wave these includes, Google App store to target Apple, Google wave service provider and gPad to take on Apple iPad but one interesting news that really caught my eyes is that Google Apps store may be based on the same model as Salesforce.com’s force.com platform which lets outside developers create add-ons that integrate into Salesforce.com and are hosted in Salesforce’s cloud infrastructure; or Salesforce.com’s AppExchange platform, a directory of applications that third-party developers build for Salesforce that users can purchase and add to their Salesforce solutions.

The motives behind Google offering a store around its Apps offerings is two-fold: First, it would likely increase adoption of Google Apps, and second, it would act as a differentiator between Google and its two chief business productivity application rivals, Microsoft and IBM, both of which offer hosted versions of their collaboration and communications applications in the cloud.

What this will allow Google is to create its own online version of ERP system specially designed for small / medium size businesses which makes up most of the organisations.

So, is Google ERP the missing jigsaw piece?