Key points from the study include:

* Although core application modules were the primary focus for companies, enterprise asset management, financial performance and strategy management applications, and other supply chain modules like manufacturing and other back-office applications are expected to grow significantly in 2011 as these are not substantially covered in traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications.

* Focus will be on the integration of analytic appliances into enterprise applications to help streamline business processes and thereby improving customer relationships, reducing time-to-market, and enhancing collaborative decision making.