ERP 2015: ERP enters the cloud at speed

Cloud deployment and mobile integration are big trends in enterprise resource management.

Paul Hennessy, Dynamics Lead for Microsoft.
Paul Hennessy, Dynamics Lead for Microsoft.

Enterprise resource management (ERP) is fast becoming big business. A recent study by Allied Market Research estimated that the global ERP software market will be worth $41.69 billion by 2020, and this growth isn’t surprising.

With the Aberdeen Group finding that ERP deployment brings, on average, a 22 per cent reduction in operating costs, 20 per cent reduction in administrative costs and a 17 per cent reduction in inventory ...