ERP being the heart and soul of a business, acts as a major catalyst in streamlining the business processes and bringing forth an ideal business model with minimal intrications and minimal complexities. It not only gives you a comprehensive business model to control and monitor all the business operations, but also saves a lot of paperwork and unnecessary computing power. You can keep a track of all your business activities and every minute change can be monitored. There are plenty of ERP modules available for different business areas that help you manage your existing resources with utmost ease.

Ever since the ERP technology came into existence, it has been through countless upgradations, innovations and advancements. As a matter of fact, every year brings something new to this transpiring domain and 2017 is no exception. Seeing what 2016 had to offer, 2017 is perceived to be another biggie from ERP’s point of view. While all we can do is predict as of now, it’s very likely that these predictions may come true pretty soon. So here are the 3 ERP trends that we are likely to see in 2017.

Also read 5 ERP Mistakes That Will Degrade Your Business.

#1 Big Data & Predictive Analytics

Big Data has always been a close companion of the ERP and it is being used in the ERP systems for quite some time now. However, not all the ERP systems have completely opened up to Big Data. 2017 is going to witness a worldwide expansion and adaptation of Big Data and Predictive Analytics in ERP as more and more ERP vendors are now looking forward to the Big Data integration with their respective ERP systems. While Predictive Analytics is a proven tool for its highly efficient decision making capabilities, very few business are currently using it for making important decisions and business predictions. But a lot is going to be changed in 2017 and it is likely to pave new ways for the ERP and Big Data go hand in hand to revitalize the business stratagems and streamline the business operations.

#2 ERP & IoT

Undoubtedly, IoT is a transpiring field and a groundbreaking technology which has make its effect felt all over the globe in a relatively less period of time. IoT thrives on a simple fact that “why should only humans be the ones to use the internet? Internet is for everyone, in fact, for everything.” And this rational notion has given birth to an avant-garde domain called “Internet of Things.”

While IoT still hasn’t reached its full potential yet, the former has already given the ERP industry a run for its money. It is starting to dominate the ERP landscape and 2017 is going to witness a substantial upsurge in its use cases. Soon enough, we’ll see the IoT devices instead of humans running major business operations.

#3 Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence is certainly one the most advanced and cutting-edge technologies that we have been using today. It has the power and potential to revolutionize our daily lives and the ERP industry can also gain a great deal of profit from the Artificial Intelligence. Imagine a scenario where you can directly give orders to the machine to handle a particular task. Thankfully with Artificial Intelligence, it doesn’t seem to be so far-fetched as of now. AI will greatly help the ERP systems to get quick, efficient and smarter and in 2017, we’re going to see much of the difference happening in ERP because of the AI.