The predictions for the first few bars in a week will again be suspect, as in 1), so one may want to refrain from trading then. As anyone might have predicted (but few did, even though there was ample precedent in the history of disruptive technologies, including the closely-related music industry) self-pubbing began to gobble up market share. To get the discussion started in terms of some of the key areas of development and debate within this all-important technology space, Evan Quinn, principal director - marketing, QAD, made the point that innovations such as Cloud, Big Data/advanced analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) and modernised, mobile user experiences have been hot subjects over the past few years in ERP. Schipperus explained that Sana Commerce partners with Microsoft and SAP, and is seeing both these vendors really invest in the Cloud and develop partner-based philosophies around development of tools that hook into the ERP.