Five Key Software Trends for Companies to Watch
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
SAP Executive Shai Agassi spoke to more than 1,500 technology leaders at the annual Software 2006 event about trends he is seeing in the marketplace.
- We believe that for I.T. to deliver the flexibility organizations need, it must create a single, unified platform that provides a repository of coherent services.
- We believe the market has shifted from point solutions to industry-flavored suites.
“One of the things we’re doing right now is opening up our technology platform to partners, including developers and integrators, which allow them to build their unique apps on top of our platform,” Agassi highlighted. “SAP’s platform provides a single repository of enterprise services, where the entire ecosystem can leverage our technology by building the solutions that are needed for every customer.”
Agassi continued, “The days of buying point products are long behind us. Five years from now, customers will only buy suites. You won’t purchase individual point products such as ERP, CRM, supply chain management or HR applications that will ship to you as separate entities and that will end up as a collection of services that you need to manage. Customers are looking to drive a higher level of value out of their industry flavored, enterprise software solutions and they are doing this through deploying application suites.”
