20 Most Promising ERP Solution Providers - 2016

According to Gartner, 2016 will bear witness to organizations referring to heavily customized ERP implementations as ‘Legacy ERP.’ Early ERP adopters, particularly large enterprises in Energy, Manufacturing and Distribution industries are paying the penalty of a decade or more of excessive customization. As a result of which, Businesses today are looking at ways to improve administration and take advantage of lower costs, better functional fit and process flexibility offered by blending cloud applications with on-premise applications in what the market now refer to as 'postmodern ERP.’ However, with Cloud-based solutions, it is much too easy to fall into the trap of taking a short-term, tactical approach — lured by the seemingly attractive low per-user costs. Such an approach actually leads to increased total costs once the additional costs for connecting the solutions together are taken into account. Even the direct costs alone can lead to increased TCO, but there are other costs to take into consideration, such as the need to reskill or hire new staff to deal with data, integration and vendor management.

Business stakeholders expect reliable and integrated solutions, and their requirements have switched to the twin concerns of lowering IT costs and seeking increased flexibility. And they are now on the lookout for an ERP vendor who is capable of providing an interesting mix of On-premise and Cloud ERP solutions that will enable the business to sail full throttle. Because, a system that is not sufficiently flexible to meet changing business demands is an anchor, not a sail, holding the business back, not driving it forward.

CIOReview brings to you the list of 20 Most Promising ERP Solution Providers who not only take pride in their complete understanding of the ERP domain, but also exhibit an array of solutions that have been developed as a result of their expertise in the arena. As these vendor companies were closely scrutinized by a panel of judges that encompassed CEOs, CIOs, CXOs, analysts and the CIOReview editorial board, these vendors can be rest assured to furnish means to a faster ROI while offering lower TCO.

We present to you CIOTechOutlook 20 Most Promising ERP Solution Providers - 2016.