Vision 2010 - Future of Business Software Applications

Overview

Colleges and universities have been investing in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in an effort to achieve a greater degree of data and process integration. The single-vendor, ERP strategy is now being challenged by the emergence of open source application software and by increasing demands for better integration with extended and disparate resources. Campus decision-makers need to pause and ask, "What lies ahead?" IBM believes that the open source movement is the start of the next major paradigm shift in the software industry. This paper is intended to provide to provide a vision of some of the software innovations and business practices that will shape administrative applications within a reasonable planning horizon, now until 2010.