AMR’s Bruce Richardson has a set of predictions for 2006 in the enterprise software industry.Predicting a strong year for the enterprise software and services market – he points to five major growth themes for the coming year.
1. Continued vendor consolidation –that may include the BI space (Agreed)
2. Office 12 becoming a dominant player - the Office franchise will be the foundation for many of the future composite apps for inter-enterprise collaboration I can only partially agree - Also read my note here. Microsoft CRM long way to go)
3. Google economy gets stronger (Agreed)
4. Collaborative apps (Agreed)
5. Limited SOA adoption (Agreed)
To make the list more rounded let me add enterprise applications encompasing Web 2.0, enterprise Mobile applications, VoIP integrations with enterprise applicatons, ESB/BPM and Offshore product development/engineering getting stronger as other major themes that could be felt lot more in 2006.
Category :Technology Predictions 2006, Emerging Trends
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