{"id":526,"date":"2012-04-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/apr\/16\/roundup-of-saas-erp-forecasts-and-market-estimates-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T09:00:00","slug":"roundup-of-saas-erp-forecasts-and-market-estimates-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/roundup-of-saas-erp-forecasts-and-market-estimates-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup of SaaS ERP Forecasts and Market Estimates, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest round of SaaS ERP market forecasts are more grounded in the reality of CIO priorities and committed projects in 2012 than ever before.&nbsp; And this is good news for the many vendors competing in the Financial Management Systems (FMS), Human Capital Management (HCM) and Manufacturing segments of the SaaS ERP market.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago in Houston I interviewed twenty-five different CIOs, IT Directors, CEOs and CTOs as part of a persona research study I am doing.&nbsp; Their take on SaaS ERP was consistent with what this round-up shows, namely this type of SaaS application is best suited for extending beyond, not replacing, the main ERP systems and platforms.&nbsp;&nbsp; I concentrated on SaaS ERP adoption in manufacturing and learned the following during my interviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Of the CIOs I spoke with, SaaS ERP is getting the most traction on the Financial Management Systems side.<\/strong>&nbsp; The majority of CIOs I spoke &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest round of SaaS ERP market forecasts are more grounded in the reality of CIO priorities and committed projects in 2012 than ever before.&nbsp; And this is good news for the many vendors competing in the Financial Management Systems (FMS), Huma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}