Enterprises that think they can escape the clutches of vendor lock-in by shunting their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) operations to the cloud are in for a very rude awakening, according to Gartner Inc.
The research house has just landed a sucker punch with the claim that almost all cloud ERP projects are doomed to fail by 2018, just two years from now. It says that 90 percent of enterprises that roll out what it calls a “post-modern EPR” will end up suffering exactly the same problems of greater complexity, failed integration and higher costs that are so often associated with traditional ERP projects.
According to Gartner’s definition, “post-modern ERP” systems are those which are federated and loosely coupled, and no longer provided by a single provider like Oracle or SAP SE.
The number one reason why Gartner predicts such doom and gloom is a total lack of an application integration strategy and the skills needed to create one.
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SOURCE: Silicon Angle
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