Top 10 business applications stories of 2022 | Computer Weekly
Summary
For the world of business applications, the shade of Covid-19 faded somewhat in 2022, as the energy crisis, informed by the war in Ukraine, and concomitant economic crises emerged to bedevil the field instead. Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) seems to be maturing, with customers taking a more piecemeal approach, looking for more industry-specific functionality from a more diverse supplier community than was the case a decade or more ago. As in 2022, enterprise software suppliers and users were and are looking to a nimbler future, with more loosely coupled ERP systems, more flexible business process management (BPM) and improvement, and a renewed focus on customers and employees as they gravitate to digital channels. He believes the pendulum has swung too far from technology expertise to generic business knowledge in the CIO community, as he explains in this interview with Computer Weekly. Covid may be receding into history, but the macroeconomic and environmental crises besetting organisations will demand ever-greater creativity from the suppliers of the software that runs those entities in 2023.