Enterprise resource
planning software is the ultimate legacy application. On the downside, ERP has
earned a reputation for costly, time-consuming deployments and maintenance,
outdated user interfaces, and general inflexibility. On the plus side, ERP is software
that very often runs the business, from manufacturing to financials to sales,
and it's often highly customized to serve specific company needs. The category,
at least until recently, has also been synonymous with on-premises
implementations, in part because of concerns that the cloud couldn't deliver
the reliability, speed, and data control companies wanted from such a crucial
system.
While other business
application categories such as CRM and email have shifted heavily toward cloud
deployments, ERP has been seen as the last to move. It's not that cloud-based
ERP hasn't existed; it just hasn't enjoyed the same interest and adoption as
early drivers like CRM.
That appears poised to change. Users and IT want faster
deployments and less maintenance. Meanwhile, cloud use -- especially in
the form of software as a service (SaaS) --
has gone from new and trendy to mundane.
Research firm Gartner predicted last year that at least 30% of
service-oriented businesses will move the majority of their ERP applications to
the cloud by 2018. Gartner expects that over the next decade and beyond, the
ERP norm will switch from on-premises to cloud. It said that heavily
customized, on-premises ERP deployments will be commonly thought of as
"legacy ERP" beginning in 2016.
The good news for CIOs and
their teams considering moving some or all ERP functions online: Vendors have
been prepping for this shift, and there's already plenty of choice. The
conventional ERP heavyweights -- Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP -- are also in on
the trend. You may have noticed how much all three, each in their own way,
talked up cloud across the board in 2014.
Add in cloud-from-the-start
companies plus a variety of other options, and it's apparent that ERP cloud
advocates will have a range of choices. Moreover, expect 2015 to bring much
added functionality related to mobile and remote access (which was one of the
key complaints in the survey mentioned above), social business, big data and
analytics integration, and more.
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