By Eleanor Reader
CSC’s Leading Edge Forum Executive Programme (LEF) is on the lookout for interested clients to participate in an upcoming research project on Next Generation ERP.
The project, which will be headed by Warren Burns, will investigate why ERP systems cost large firms huge sums of money to establish and maintain when they are so popular and widely used.
An article about the new initiative said that while the market for ERP megaprojects and expertise continues to rise, the rest of the cycle hasn’t caught up.
“Yes, there has been competition and supplier consolidation (a form of standardisation), but prices haven’t fallen, installations have not been commoditised, ERP as-a-Service offerings remain modest, and open source alternatives are used primarily in smaller businesses,” it said.
The project will address two main questions that have caught client interest:
1. Do ERP systems really have to cost so much money? Many executives inside and outside IT are still shocked at the high price tags, constant schedule overruns, and hard-to-calculate ROI. The issue is less about the value of ERP than whether there are less costly options.
2. Will the cycle of commoditisation kick in, and if so, how and when? Software-as-a-service firms are clearly succeeding in moving into new markets faster than ERP vendors can evolve, but they are still mostly picking around the edges.
The report will be published early next year.
If you are interested in participating the research project, email Warren Burns wburns@leadingedgeforum.com, or for more detail on the project access the article here.
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