Enterprise Apps Today interviewed IT experts to determine what’s going on with Enterprise Resource planning (ERP), where it’s all heading and what companies should be doing about it.
- ERP’s Cloudy Future – Migrating to the cloud enables companies of all sizes to evolve their IT infrastructure.
- Hybrid Cloud – Have the best of both worlds with on-premise applications AND cloud appications integrated to your system.
- Better ERP Reporting – Improved reporting, facilitated by analytics and tighter integration is a current trend in ERP.
- Fighting ERP Tradition – Companies hesitant of change want something that can help them solve their problems with simple solutions.
- SMB ERP Adoption – The move to the cloud has led to greater SMB adoption of ERP.
- ERP Platform Approach – There is a move toward businesses making a strategic platform choice first, and then working with individual departments to choose applications that fit the overall platform strategy.
- ERP Vendor Consolidation – There will most likely be more mergers in the near future.
We are likely to see a growing cloud ERP presence, heavier SMB buy-in, more analytics and a smaller group of ERP vendors to choose from as the field continues to thin down due to mergers.