Enterprise Software of Tomorrow

Fabulous article HERE by Matt Asay on the future of Enterprise Software. Having worked for large and small companies that not only use Enterprise Software but produce it, it's still of marginal use to me as a professional compared to IM, Microsoft Office, Google, and a few social applications.

And while I should be the target user for Business Intelligence and Analysis, I don't use it nearly as much as you would think. The reasons? Data complexity comes to mind. Businesses today deal with more and more data needed for information, and much of that data is in one of two states:

• "In jail" in an ERP system or data warehouse to which most users have little access
• Created by the knowledge worker -- the result of research and number crunching by the worker him (or her) self.
  

The BI tools of the future must enable the knowledge worker to find the data they need, and make logical correlations to help the worker anticipate the next place they need to go to complete their train of thought.