Template-driven implementations will become more commonplace in the mid-market;

Cloud-based ERP in the enterprise and highly targeted verticals will flourish;

ERP mobility will be a dominant force from the shop floor to each sales call where quotes, orders and contracts deliver real-time order and pricing updates;

Streamlined, intuitive usability of social networks will lead to ERP getting a makeover in 2012 in an effort to drive up system adoption;

Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) will become the fuel that drives cultural change away from multiple silos of information that do not “speak to each other” to one database driving all decisions; and

Depth and quality of applications, data, and legacy integration on mobile devices including tablets will emerge as the new “must have”;