Companies will seek to compete on a global scale and that means merging companies. So the market has told us the way to go is to focus on and consolidate our core business. |
The challenge facing companies today is flexibility. [Prior to this] companies were [primarily] concerned with lowering costs and increasing efficiency. |
We will see a volume of pressure on information systems that is unparalleled in history. Businesses have to operate in an increasingly automated way allowing the user more autonomy [to concentrate on other tasks]. At the same time they need greater availability of up-to-date and reliable information to be able to relate better to their counterparts in the supply chain. |