Novel ICT Trends that can Empower Business Again Dražen VUKOTI Superius d.o.o., Pula drazen.vukotic@superius.hr Nikola TANKOVI Superius d.o.o., Pula nikola.tankovic@superius.hr Mario ŽAGAR University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb mario.zagar@fer.hr Abstract: High availability of computational infrastructure enabled every company to use business software applications, ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning) systems in particular. ERP systems became inevitable part of business. With many positive characteristics that ERP systems provided, they also brought some negative effects. Given the way they evolved, ERP systems are highly standardized and inflexible as they provide customization only in a way that is built in design time. That is why they are becoming a lagging factor to fast and innovative business process changes which enable competitive advantage. ERP system represents a realistic image of a business system, and vice versa. This raises a possibility to change and adapt business system and its processes by adapting ERP system. In an evolved business environment that is always changing and growing, adaptations to ERP systems must follow in speed. This paper covers new technical possibilities to enable faster and efficient changes to the business systems by its end-users, without the need to involve IT departments or companies. ADBE (Application Design by Example) possibilities are specially covered as a way to create and modify business software applications Keywords: PbE, Programming by Example, ADBE, Application Design by Example, Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; JEL Code: C890 Introduction In early 1980’s the era of personal computers began which brought big changes in business management. Utilizing IT in business processes became possible for small and medium businesses, not only for large - scale companies which could afford large mainframes. Networking of small personal computers enabled collaborative work and faster information exchange. Working on-line meant unprecedented number of ways of doing business in that period like MRP and JIT managing of production and stocks. In a wave of new technical possibilities came () great new applications covering all main business processes available for variable size companies in all markets, since 1990 known as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). ERP software market had great potential so IT companies started to build wide use ERP applications for unknown buyers. In a struggle to gain market share, they coded the best