The Tekrati site has an article up on AMR's research finding on ERP spending,

AMR Research forecasts U.S. companies will increase their ERP budgets by 11.3 percent in 2007.

"This year and next will experience levels of ERP investment that we haven't seen since the late 1990s," said Jim Shepherd, a senior vice president at AMR Research. "At that time, new customers were replacing legacy systems with ERP suites. Today, spending is driven by a healthy mix of new customers, consolidation projects, add-on applications, and deployment to additional users."

Research findings include:

• Globalization and Lean manufacturing are the two most important business issues companies plan to address with ERP investments. 43% of respondents aim to have a single global ERP system within three years -- compared with only 26% today.
• Manufacturing and retail buyers favor a single-vendor packaged ERP system. 82% of survey respondents from these sectors are using suites for their ERP applications.
• SAP and Oracle will maintain their foothold in the ERP space. 55% of respondents in the process of making ERP system selections said SAP was on the list of vendors they were considering, while 43% of respondents said Oracle was on their list.

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Prashanth Rai