Will Disruptive Cloud Computing Kill Enterprise Resource Planning?

January 31, 2014 Off By David
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Grazed from CMSWire. Author: David Roe.

It’s a just about a cliché at this stage to note that cloud computing has been one of the big technology disruptors in recent years. However, according to Gartner, the best — or worst, depending on your perspective — has yet to come. It seems Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications are doomed to legacy status or even the trash bin.

ERP Legacy Systems

According to a recently published report. Predicts 2014: The Rise of the Postmodern ERP and Enterprise Applications World (fee charged), monolithic ERP implementations will start to disappear by 2016, especially as alternatives mature. Gartner describes a legacy system as any system that is not sufficiently flexible to meet changing business needs…

This in itself is an interesting definition because it could be applied to many other applications that have failed to evolve in an agile and flexible way to respond to market pressures…

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