Best Software Delivers More Insights To Its Partners
(As Well As To The Market)
Part Four: Market Impact Continued
P.J. Jakovljevic - July 28, 2003

Specialty Products Make Their Contribution

Despite most vendors' incessant attempts (and hype), enterprise applications functionality has not yet reached maturity in terms of the value it can provide to organizations. Often simply because it is human nature to disregard and put into oblivion all but a few mundane, repetitive practices, many enterprise systems gradually 'lose' their natively provided functionality, as users revert to previous manual workaround and sub optimal practices. For more information on this phenomenon, often referred to as 'application erosion', see Application Erosion: Eating Away at Your Hard Earned Value and Application Erosion: More Causes and Cures..