Functional and technological evolution of enterprise systems: An overview

A considerable demand of real-time business intelligence analysis persuade enterprise application vendors to cope with state-of-the-art computing technologies such as cloud computing and in-memory data management systems, to provide business owners with systems “predicting the future”. A general review and study of enterprise systems´ history helps to better understand what such systems will be in close future. This abstract review demonstrates that the evolution of these software solutions has two major aspects; functional evolution and computation revolutions.