Trends in Biz Apps by Yvonne Genovese

A shortie again. On this post on sandy Kemsley's blog, she noted some very interesting reported notes on the talk by Yvonne Genovese on the morning's technology keynote at Gartner's BPM summit 2008. Yvonne Genovese listed 9 big trends in business applications from her point of view. Most remarquable, numbers 1, 2 and 3 (logically), here the citation:

1. "Applications shift from pre-canned logic to dynamic assemblies, something that we’re already seeing with large packaged applications (such as SAP) opening up their internal functionality as services, allowing those functions to be consumed — along with any number of other web services — as part of a composite application or business process.
2. Convergence of business processes, people and information: applications that provide business value will consider all of these.
3. Focus on performance management evolution from reporting and monitoring to predictive planning and closed-loop optimization."

My pick is number 6 (citation):

1. The role of the ERP suite will change, since they typically provide a low degree of innovation; they will tend to be services consumed by other more agile applications.

Which to me is in strong correlation with point number 1. Read the post it's short and informative.

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