The Future of Enterprise Applications

Enterprise applications have become much more than just software. In addition to supporting most commercial transactions, they are also the primary source of business data, vital to regulatory compliance, and one of the most valuable assets to a company. Since the early 1980s, when vendors began to build integrated sets of departmental applications on a central database, hundreds of thousands have been sold and deployed around the world. This success has turned the enterprise application market into a major industry, with enterprise applications representing the heart of most companies IT strategies. AMR Research recognizes how important these decisions have become to businesses and how difficult it can be to understand the highly dynamic enterprise application landscape. Armed with the largest team of analysts covering these applications, The Future of Enterprise Applications assembles their best thinking on the major trends and influences in the industry.