ERP Software As an Essential Infrastructure

On our website's ERP Consulting page, it is mentioned right upfront that ERP is becoming an essential infrastructural building block of any Organization's IT Facilities.

There was a question asked on one of the forums as to whether this is really so.

While I do not have any independent research data to back up the above statement, it is my gut feel that as we go ahead, just as organizations today wonder as to how they did without computers a few years ago; in the future, organizations will wonder as to how they did without an integrated ERP software.

Of course, it will not be available in it's current shape and form.

But as a service.

Just like other software services.