Is the Forklift Dead?
Is the forklift dead? Enterprise software vendors traditionally shipped major upgrades every two to three years. Each release incorporated new technologies and many functional enhancements. There was just one catch. You needed a forklift to move the new release in and the old release out.
We can now foresee a different way of delivering new functionality. As we create new software at Lawson, it’s increasingly service oriented. We develop it with the goal of delivering new functionality as a service that can “snap onto” Lawson software that’s already installed. Our Strategic Sourcing module is an early example of service-oriented software that’s relatively easy to absorb. The forklift may not go away altogether but, at the very least, it should get a lot smaller.
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