{"id":5317,"date":"2013-01-09T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/jan\/09\/2013-erp-prediction-the-customer-takes-control\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T09:30:00","slug":"2013-erp-predictions-the-customer-takes-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/2013-erp-predictions-the-customer-takes-control\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 ERP predictions: The customer takes control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">From the obvious to the outrageous, enterprise software predictions often span a wide spectrum at the beginning of every year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">In enterprise software in general and ERP specifically, there are many safe harbours to dock predictions in, from broad industry consolidation to&nbsp;Oracle&nbsp;buying more companies. Or the inexorable advances of cloud computing and SaaS platforms in ERP today, which is often cited in enterprise software predictions.<\/p>\n<p>Too often predictions gravitate too much towards theoretical economics, overly-simplified industry dynamics and technologies, leaving out the most critical element: customers as people, not just transactions.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>So instead of repeating what many other industry analysts, observers and pundits have said, I am predicting only the customer side of ERP advances in the next twelve months.<\/p>\n<p>The following are my predictions for ERP systems and enterprise computing in 2013:<strong><br \/><\/strong><strong><br \/>1) The accelerating, chaotic pace of change driven by customers will force the majority of &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the obvious to the outrageous, enterprise software predictions often span a wide spectrum at the beginning of every year.<br \/>\nIn enterprise software in general and ERP specifically, there are many safe harbours to dock predictions in, from broad indus&#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-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","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=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}