The time is ripe to radically rethink the application architectures, delivery, and supporting business models from technology providers, consumers, and services firms that connect the dots to deliver complete applications to manufacturing companies to support operations excellence across integrated manufacturing operations. The urgency is to support that growing demand for manufacturing systems that enable demand-driven manufacturing.
The global manufacturing community needs to recognize that force-fitting monolithic applications into manufacturing operations is costly, risky, and ultimately creates systems that hinder agility, defeating the original intent.
Source: AMR Research, http://amrresearch.com