Will there be in the near future a healthy market for SaaS-based enterprise systems?
“ERP systems are very large, with lots of back-end integrations, and will thus be SaaS-based later than other software,” IFS CTO Rick Veague explained. “Examples seen so far cover a single process or module, not whole suites. Several verticals, like defense and utilities, have security restrictions limiting possibilities to run externally managed applications.