It's hard to argue with the fact that the ERP space is consolidating. Whether it will continue to consolidate or not is not a foregone conclusion in my mind.
Certainly in the Tier 1 and upper Tier 2 space, the market can't support 100 solutions. An ERP system capable of supporting large enterprises is simply too complex, requires too much support and ongoing T&D for anything but a large company behind it.
In the middle market, it's another story entirely.
What I find surprising is that I only seem to hear of people on the extreme sides of the fence - those who don't find consolidation to be an issue at all, and those who because of consolidation won't look at anything other than a solution from SAP, Oracle or Microsoft.
The vendors are partly to blame for this - with their lack of candor about their strategies. Take Infor, for example. They have become a fairly large company through a series of acquisitions. However I challenge even the more ardent ERP expert to list even half the ERP products under the Infor umbrella, much less what the future of those products is.
So, CONSOLIDATION REIGNS, I mean CONFUSION REIGNS.
What do you think?
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