This is all about business processes, application integrations, and integrity (and security) of data.
Think SOA, ESB. Combine that with Utility computing (Amazon EC2, IBM, Microsoft, and Google also entering that space eventually) and many many provider's with connected or disconnected processes but with compliant interfaces into the extended (internet) service bus...
Think SOA, ESB. Combine that with Utility computing (Amazon EC2, IBM, Microsoft, and Google also entering that space eventually) and many many provider's with connected or disconnected processes but with compliant interfaces into the extended (internet) service bus...
Big fat ERP is so 4 years ago.