Analysts say that manufacturing IT departments are feeling optimistic enough about consumer demand this year to plow serious money into newer technologies -- especially cloud computing, mobile ERP, “big data” and analytics -- that remained mostly on the drawing board until now.
IDC Manufacturing Insights, in Framingham, Mass., predicts healthy investments in foundational technologies that it says will constitute the next major IT platform: mobility, big data, cloud computing and social business. The analyst firm predicts that manufacturers will harness these “four forces” to build next-generation applications, including integrated business intelligence (BI) and corporate application stores where employees can download smartphone apps.“The complex nature of modern manufacturing requires a new IT mindset,” said Bob Parker, IDC’s group vice president. “That will be achieved through the next generation of business intelligence, big data and analytics. Companies are building systems of engagement on top of their systems of record.”
The new systems will be dedicated to better decision making and will help IT evolve from an era of consumption to one of production, according to Parker. “The IT function is moving closer to a revenue-generating function than [it has] ever been.”See more at: http://searchmanufacturingerp.techtarget.com/news/2240113244/Cloud-computing-mobile-ERP-analytics-expected-to-gain-traction-in-2012
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