Market recovery is still waiting for self-redemption
ERP market downturn coupled with people's attention, ERP reduction, ERP's development seems to be caught relying on rain-fed situation, if market demand does not change, ERP development and application can only be stagnation.
This is not true to Indian enterprises, for example, even though some enterprises by the financial crisis, caught in lower profits or even losses, the point, but still there are many medium-sized enterprises, particularly those in the medium-sized fast-growing demand for information technology is still very urgent.
As a result, a large number of medium-sized enterprises in India IT giant, under the influence of the financial crisis, the focus of attention, to IBM, for example, medium-sized enterprises have become an important expansion of its business areas. UK for the domestic ERP companies that is a model of its flagship product U9 defined as the advantages of fast-growing businesses, the advantages of the so-called fast-growing enterprises, the basic, also belong to medium-sized areas.
From the industry perspective, India as a manufacturing power, manufacturing, information technology-based enterprises has been the largest share of demand and market sectors. In the CCW (CCW Research) Foreign released in 2009 Indian manufacturing industry, ERP White Paper shows that in 2008 India's manufacturing ERP market size increased to 37.8 billion Rupees in 2007 an increase of 16.7%, while the previous year's market growth rate was 26.6%, manufacturing ERP market is subject to a combination of factors such as the international financial crisis, the impact of the indirect effects of the manufacturing industry increased by a slight drop. However, the overall market situation in 2008 look at ERP, manufacturing ERP market growth continues to lead in the overall ERP market.
This situation into 2009, although there will be some discrepancies in the data, but the general trend will not change. It should be said, the market environment, the demand for ERP and development is still very urgent. In this case, why has emerged both multinational and local companies of collective experience in this field, the cold of the situation?
In fact, the business needs changed, and IT companies provide products and services and is not in a timely fashion, or, in the context of changing economic environment, businesses need for information technology has changed, and IT companies provide solutions has failed to meet these changing needs.
Generally speaking, companies invest in information technology becomes more practical, they no longer desire for a one-stop information technology solutions, but we hope to have step by step to solving business problems and be able to accompany the development of enterprises and development, but also easy to use, cost-effective solution.
Thus, ERP's focus turning to SCM, CRM, BI, etc. area, because the different industries of different types of enterprises have focused their concerns, they not only want to be able to manage internal resources and planning, had hoped to management of suppliers and customers.
For this change Oracle greater India, manufacturing, retail and distribution of industrial applications, general manager of Jordan Ray think, ERP itself is evolving, and now many of the user's focus has been extended to beyond ERP, such as supply chain management, group management and control, budgeting, consolidations, strategic as well as industrial applications. In the past, not in the category of ERP, but they are now they could be understood as an extension and expansion of ERP connotation.
On the other hand, ERP has also begun to be more user-friendly, inexpensive direction of exploration therefore SaaS model began to wide concern. |
