subject: Future Enterprise Application Trends To Look Forward To [print this page] The next five years will see a drastic change in technology; the value & ownership of enterprise application will be highly disrupted, say mobile market researchers. The changes in the enterprise application scenario will lead to introduction of new process flexibility levels, accelerated process execution, and improved transparency of ownership costs. These future trends in the world of enterprise app development will give birth to implications which extend beyond the technical world. There are seven types of technologies which will drive the transformation experienced in the world of enterprise apps. These are:
1. SaaS (software as a service)
2. BPM (business process management)
3. Mobile
4. PaaS (platform as a service)
5. Usability
6. Elastic Computing
7. Soial Networks
Let us take a detailed look at what the future of enterprise application has in store for businesses worldwide:
1. Cloud Deployment Models will Change the Economics of Apps Software upgradation has become not only a more difficult process but also expensive. Enterprises usually wait for more than four years to upgrade their softwares. Customization of the apps will lead to challenges in the upgradation process, but the technical obsolescence will help in upgrading decisions and acquire more business value. However, elastic computing & SaaS represent alternative deployment models which are predictable. Hence, with the growth of SaaS adoption, application economics will also change for app suppliers & customers.
2. Mobile Technology will Accelerate Business Processes Mobile technology, which is inclusive of mobile devices, networks, production distribution channels, & software are constantly evolving. Mobile applications have the potential to transform business processes by increasing speed of performance & affecting mobility in a positive way. When apps are installed, mobile devices can sense, deliver, respond to, & capture real time information. However, this also means that the enterprise app suppliers will have to work hard to adapt the development cycles of their products to the ever changing mobile world.
3. Business Process Flexibility will Evolve through the Use of Embedded Modeling Tools Process management & enterprise app configuration has always been the special domain of the IT department of an enterprise. As a result of this, business flexibility has been low a customization layers have been built on enterprise apps and all business processes have to adapt to software limitations. Package configuration tooling, which is one of the emerging trends in enterprise apps, is model based & graphical since coding of these tools is not required. The flexibility, adaptability, and variability that future enterprise applications have to show towards BPM services will indeed be challenging for mobile app developers.
4. App Usage Experience will Advance to the Next Stage Packaged application software was invented with the aim to optimize capture of transactional data. This was done with the use of character based UIs that had field descriptions & rows of input fields. The future trend points to addition of drop down lists, colors, icons, and such other features that will lead to better usability of enterprise applications. No longer will an enterprise app be used for only data capture orientation that todays mobile device users do.
Mobile app developers & suppliers will successfully establish positive user experience with the use of enterprise apps in the future. All decision oriented activities, customer interactions, and business intelligence displays of a modern enterprise will be determined by the future enterprise applications.
