Last year G2 Crowd introduced predictions for 2018's major digital trends, but this year the focus is on trends in specific industries and how digital transformation will affect them in 2019.

This post is one part of G2 Crowd's 2019 digital trends series. Read more about G2's approach to digital transformation trends in an introduction from Michael Fauscette, G2 Crowd's chief research officer.

Enterprise software has reached a level of maturity that leaves little room for innovation and growth outside of implementing early-stage technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) or the internet of things (IoT).

Enterprise resource planning - or ERP systems - are the best example of this maturity, with few new players in the last decade (and none in the past couple of years). Instead, traditional vendors have either converted their on-premises offering to cloud versions (with relative success), or created new cloud products.