HR Apps & consumer orientation

Steve Boese in his latest blog talks about a consumer oriented approach to HR Technology, where we can have the latest apps for HR downloaded, configured & ready to use.
The same thought occurred to me when we I was getting a demo of SuccessFactors (SFSF) & their entire suite of applications. I was really impressed with the deep functionality, UI, configurability & their 2-3 month implementation time frames, not to mention that a customer is always on the latest release.
Traditional ERP shops like PS, SAP etc take a lot of time & cost to upgrade, their UI sucks big time & functionality is, well, nothing to speak of. Try configuring their workflows & then you really start hating them big time.
Of course, we are still far off from Steve's vision of preloaded HR apps, but we are getting there..