What's in Store for Enterprise Applications During 2006

Filed in archive Supply Chain on January 3, 2006

Deal Architect has a list of top ten enterprise predictions for 2006 worth checking out. His list focuses on enterprise software and hardware predictions. He cautions against letting Web 2.0 go to our heads and ignoring the heavy-lifting business applications:

"Over the last couple of weeks it has been good to see so many bloggers make their forecasts about 2006. But - most are about Web 2.0 - Google this, Flickr that. Of course, with Apple and amazon.com enjoying a bumper holiday season, the focus on consumer technologies is only accented.

Much as I love Google, it cannot process BOMs for the average manufacturing company. Much as my daughter loves her iPod, it will not process insurance claims. Whoever does whatever with AOL will not improve supply chain logistics at UPS.

As we did in the last Internet Bubble, we risk making the Web and consumer technologies the center of the technology world."

His prediction #2 is particularly interesting. He suggests that applications such as CRM (customer relationship management) and SCM (supply chain management) will be re-defined more broadly and will encompass newer technology building blocks such as RFID, GPS and even RSS.

Via Jeff Nolan who added his critique, too.