Doug Barney at Redmond Channel Partner, reports on a new survey from the IT research firm Computer Economics, (“Technology Trends 2010/2011”) focused on the IT spending priorities for the coming year. Along with the predictable upgrades to Windows 7 (those 175 million licenses are not just from new computers!), and the hot topic of virtualization, the third category mentioned as the big spending priority for IT executives is ERP, or enterprise resource planning.
According to Kurt Mackie, writing on the survey in Redmond Magazine, “About two thirds of the IT organizations surveyed had ERP systems. Half of the respondents planned to invest further in those systems or buy new ERP systems for the first time. ERP investments appear to be getting some renewal after stagnating during the recession, the report noted.”
Gartner call this movement “Applications Overhaul,” as customers on old, outdated, and unscalable platforms upgrade to the new and modern technology, on premise or in the cloud, of the Dynamics ERP portfolio of products.
