The Future Of Erp Business Applications - 1914 Words

The Future of ERP Business Applications: User Experience Is The New Imperative While many of these systems have been designed to be used by internal employees to increase efficiencies and contribute to the bottom line through expense controls, controls. The reality is most of these solutions were not designed to help businesses build externally focused, profitable, revenue generating relationships with customers and business partners. Today’s executives must identify systems and solutions to exploit new external channels, medias, and avenues to gain and retain new customers. Outside of cloud and mobile, below are several predictions and trends I see coming to the ERP business applications marketplace: When deploying,†¦show more content†¦To provide a competitive advantage, enterprises, and supporting systems , have been increasingly turning their focus to new ways of gaining overall revenue generating effectiveness, not just efficiency. They are shifting their focus and investments from solutions oriented around process, products and resources to those that interweave configuration over customization, interactions over process, and relationships over resources. In the high-velocity data driven world we live in, many CEOs Enterprises want an integrated supply chain where they can have real-time intelligence and visibility across the entire network to ensure they can make effective decisions and actions . New information technologies are giving companies real-time insight into not just business activities, but what their customers need and what products and services they can offer them. Consolidating contextually relevant information into a single, customizable, dashboard has become vital for ensuring businesses can quickly respond to customer and market demands. Further, Uuser Interfaces are becoming clean and easy to use and customizable customized to fit the way each user interacts with the system. Executives and employees no longer want to search through files,