Here is an extract of an article on the future of ERP by Ian Fleming, Managing Director, IFS Middle East, Africa and South Asia
Ian Fleming, Managing Director, IFS Middle East, Africa and South Asia
Businesses today are required to deal with technological advancements occurring at a pace never experienced before. What’s more, trends like the consumerisation of IT have lessened the CIO’s ability to regulate which technologies are used alongside the corporate network.
As trends like Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) continue to make an impact, it’s important that the IT department embraces new technologies for a number of reasons. Aside from missing out on any potential benefits, being too proscriptive regarding the technology employees can use risks the emergence of shadow IT; when IT solutions are built or adopted without explicit organisational approval.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in particular has a lot to gain from adopting an open approach to new innovations. Here are the five technology trends that I believe have the potential to shape the future of ERP, if implemented correctly:
- The Internet of Things
- Wearable technology
- Big data analytics
- The age of context
- Opening business to innovation
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