End-User Epicenter

So InformationWeek Analytics says ERP is Cool Again. We never thought it had lost its cachet to begin with.

According to the IW Analytics survey of 314 IT personnel, what these business technology leaders want is a little more support from their colleagues and organizations. Now that’s not a lot to ask. It’s not like they’re asking for more money. In fact, they’re not. Budget and training issues ranked lower on the survey, which bucks the trend of a few years ago when they were asking for budgetary increases.

Further, the article goes on to state that CEOs are looking for not only better reporting of metrics, but they want it to be Read more…

We watched with eager anticipation to see what news and predictions would come from the Gartner Symposium, held in Florida, and much to our excitement the news was good.

Gartner is predicting IT spending will increase 3.1 percent to $2.5 trillion in 2011, with worldwide spending on IT reaching $2.8 trillion by 2014. Yes, that’s trillion!

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