2010 Manufacturing Software State of the Industry Roundtable
Manufacturing Software Advice has a very good two-part expert roundtable discussion of
the 2010 state of the industry for manufacturing software. Part one reports buying activity, spending patterns by business size/industry, and primary drivers of current buying activity. Part two, published just last week, reviews activity in the SaaS market, how vendors are adjusting prices to compensate for the recession, how offshoring influences spending and whether manufacturers are implementing integrated ERP systems or best-of-breed applications.
Both parts are very interesting, even if you’re not necessarily in a manufacturing vertical. Trends are trends, and we can vouch that most of these are industry-agnostic.
From where we sit, we agree with two points in particular that Software Advice makes. Namely, (1) that SaaS solutions are markedly up in both consideration and priority among businesses of all sizes (we see a ton of Workday interest), and (2) we see a strong movement towards integrated ERP solutions over best-of-breeds. For this latter point, our context is Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), as many of our client discussion talks about moving to this solution and away from best-of-breed applications. (Related: Software Advice has another good post about 10 questions to consider when evaluating an integrated suite vs. a best-of-breed. Worth checking out.)
Thoughts on these two points? We’d love to hear them in the comments.
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