SaaS

There are reporters, analysts, vendors, journalists, and bloggers talking about SaaS and the impact it has on ERP software. So, it is good to hear from somebody in the field who is selling, implementing, and deploying ERP solutions. Read an account of ERP trends from a field representative.
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An article in Manufacturing & Technology eJournal reminds us that SaaS and cloud computing can lower your costs. The chart, reproduced below, portrays several cost criteria and concludes that you need to consider SaaS vendors in your decision making process. ERP Cloud Considerations What the chart doesn’t show is the relative size of the...
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According to Gartner, SaaS revenues are growing, but the growth of SaaS ERP remains flat. ERP Cloud News believes that their is tremendous opportunity for growth in the mid-market. There are obstacles that have impeded the growth of SaaS ERP, but these issues are being addressed by several up and coming vendors. Getting this...
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What is the difference between platform as a service and infrastructure as a service? Infrastructure as a service (for example Amazon EC2) provides on-demand computing power and storage. Platform as a service (one aspect of Microsoft Azure) provides computing power and storage plus an operating system. With PAAS, the operating system is patched and...
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Carl Mortished, World Business Editor for The Times, published an article entitled “Evolutionary clock is ticking for dinosaur model” (full article here). “SAP has cut 3,300 staff and is asking the rest to be more nimble and opportunistic. A key project is to use “cloud” computing, software delivered over the internet as a service...
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Today, Bruce Richardson from AMR Research commented in the AMR newsletter: “Given my fixation on cloud applications, I did close our meeting by asking the team whether they had plans to offer a software-as-as-service (SaaS) version. The executives said that while the company has a version available now, it’s had very little demand because...
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In a previous post we proposed criteria to define criteria for easy to customize ERP systems. We innocuously declared that 0% of multi-tenant SaaS solutions would meet these criteria. After hearing from several folks, we decided that more clarification is required. Savings with SaaS The fact that multi-tenant SaaS solutions are not 100% customizable...
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The problem of whether to purchase customized software or off-the-shelf solutions was covered in ERP articles as far back as 2001. The chart below tells the usual story with the addition of the “SaaS” and “Traditional” labels.   Customized Software (most Traditional solutions) Packaged Software (most SaaS solutions) Benefits Match current business processes Maximize...
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