It's really a good article.
Software vendors are going to have to get better at standing out from the crowd and with showing greater flexibility with their channel partners if they are to take advantage of changes happening in the market over the next few years. According to Gartner's latest insights into the global enterprise software market, which it expects to increase by 7.5% and go past the $253bn mark in 2011, the analyst house has made some predictions about the future encouraging vendors to modernise applications in the light of the growth of SaaS and the cloud. Cloud, virtualisation and SaaS are all expected to grow as is the use of social media and networking but the emphasis will be on taking advantage of those developments without spending large amounts of money.
http://www.computerweekly.com/microscope/feature/Analysis-A-changing-enterprise-software-market
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