Here is our fearless forecast for 2015: The year will see the rise of the flexible enterprise platform built for the cloud and the continued decline of legacy B2B vendors that are simply moving their old software to the cloud.
While the legacy vendors may be finally be waking up to the fact that cloud is the future of enterprise software, they seem unable to shake the same old mentality of trying to update their on-premise solutions with cloud technology – while maintaining the same large and expensive footprint.
Enterprises are pivoting away from these traditional enterprise vendors. They are moving toward those with a cloud-based, application-first strategy, the so-called “3路平台” that industry research organization IDC first identified in 2007.
The 3路平台
根据IDC，3路平台,这是建立在技术支柱of mobile computing, cloud services, big data and analytics, and social networking, would eventually become the new core of growth in the information and communications technology (ICT) market.
In 2015, the 3路平台将占全球ICT支出的三分之一，占支出增长的100％。
IDC believes that the industry is now entering the most critical period yet in the 3rd Platform era: the 'Innovation Stage'. It expects that, over the next several years, there will be an explosion of innovation and value creation on top of the 3rd Platform's foundation.
IDC表示，此阶段将由创新加速器的新一波核心技术驱动，从而从根本上扩展了第三平台的功能和应用程序。亚搏彩票app下载软件安装亚博专业购彩平台
The prediction is that cloud services will remain a hotbed of activity in 2015, with US$118 billion in spending on the greater cloud ecosystem.
我们将看到进一步采用云的想法符合我在2013年底所说的话，当时我预测2014年将是所有领域云领先战略的全球转折点。
云部署和维护的便利性是一个巨大的吸引力。另外，它还适合“混合”环境，该环境利用了与云解决方案集成的本地和其他系统投资。
云支持快速实施/培训（启动和运行），任何地方访问和协作。
公民开发商的兴起
综合业务计划的愿景（IBP）随着公民开发人员的兴起而从讨论到现实。
在2009年，加特纳（Gartner）预测，到2014年，公民开发人员将至少建造25％的新业务应用程序。现实接近这一点，但不是完全。
But in 2015, we at Anaplan expect to see this prediction come true as the open-content model for business applications comes to fruition, thanks to continued cloud adoption.
This will happen through the empowerment of citizen developers: business people without programming background who are building their own apps, cracking the code on long-standing, industry-wide problems, and sharing their solutions with their peers.
我们已经看到了移动应用程序建设中的趋势；下一个推送将在企业中完全配置为应用程序。
The top business priority of CFOs is bringing the drivers and impacts from across the company into play in one view and being able to create and maintain a view of the interconnected business.
即时整合很大。说“我们与任何数据集成”是不够的。企业有很多信息来源。准备好与Meta-Data连接的价值比“您可以建立与任何事物的集成”更具价值。
电子表格的死亡
长期以来，财务一直被称为豆柜台，预算警察和成本中心。但是，许多公司越来越多地将其作为组织内的战略资产的职能。现代首席财务官被视为至关重要的战略领导者，推动成本节省，并增加了底线和收入。
传统报告（财务和运营）并未死亡。财务和会计小组仍然需要提供可以共享的传统报告（电子邮件，门户网站）并与内部和外部利益相关者进行审查（在线和离线）。仪表板很好。他们一目了然地向高管和领导人发表观点。
But when the rubber hits the road, traditional reporting, controlled by users, is required.
2015年将在包括Salesforce.com，Workday和Anaplan在内的云平台之间提供进一步的互操作性。由于采用了基于云的企业平台的增加，2015年可能会将End电子表格视为企业协作应用程序。
电子表格可能是许多较小公司的主要业务计划工具，但它们从未为该工作设计。它们设计为个人生产力工具，它们的灵活性不够，无法处理大型企业所需的数据负载。
Still, spreadsheets are not the enemy. Finance, and all business users, will always use them in some way. It is their baby and they are tired of people calling their baby ugly!
But there is an opportunity here. As applications improve over Excel, they can still complement and work with it. This resonates with CFOs and finance professionals.
促进分析
Analytics will be huge in 2015. Finance needs everything to be visual to gain at-a-glance insights and drill-to-detail capability to answer next-level questions (through dashboards, visual analytics, and interactive graphs).
CFO所确定的需要技术支持的第一大业务优先事项正在促进分析和决策。数据在那里。需要的是能够将信息纳入统一视图，然后使决策者可以访问该视图。
CFOS将公司绩效管理（CPM）排名为未来在商业智能和分析方面的投资。就优先级而言，对要生成的数据的燃料分析，报告和决策的能力等于（如果不是之前）仅创建数据的能力（计划，预测）。
CPM和Insight将融合到一个，因此CPM不仅是ERP这样的另一个黑匣子。首席财务官对数据可以告诉他们的内容有意义，以对业务用户有意义（无论是高管，金融，LOB领导者，前线），因此可以立即洞悉。
首席财务官和CIO正在合作制定技术决策。不再是控制买入的一个或另一个。IT和财务领导人现在看到了他们在结盟和共同努力方面的优先事项。
关于作者
Frederic Laluyaux是Anaplan的总裁兼首席执行官，Anaplan是一家云服务公司，为企业提供销售，金融和运营的计划平台。
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