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.