Changing Role of the ERP Manager In a traditional ERP deployment all ERP related tasks are performed in house. In this case the ERP Manager is responsible for a team of employees that can manage servers, update software, configure the application, oversee data backups, and other system related tasks. All of these tasks will...
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Good Clouds and Bad Clouds Recent weather events including flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, tornados from Northern California to Oklahoma, thunderstorms from Illinois to New York, and heat alerts in the Southeast have demonstrated the impact of ‘bad clouds’ on business and data availability. I’ve often heard the phrase “you have to...
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Many say that by deploying ERP software on an external cloud, businesses gain on-demand scalability and eliminate server capacity planning. In this post we investigate whether it’s possible to eliminate all capacity planning issues when deploying on an external cloud. Yes, no planning needed With the Cloud, you simply turn on more service as...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently declared that the company is “all in” when it comes to cloud computing technology, announcing plans to update their stable of legacy ERPs to run on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. In this post, I’ll make a few comments to provide the Openbravo perspective. No Big Surprise First, this move...
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It is exciting to me to see the momentum of the Cloud marketplace. With every study I see, every analysts I hear, every piece of research I read, all are saying the same thing…Cloud is growing! But it is also interesting to me that even though there is growth, there are many in the...
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One of the most important stages of implementing any new ERP software is the training of the end user – this is particularly true when implementing Cloud technology. To unlock the full cost saving advantages of ERP software it is essential that all of its users not only know exactly how to use it...
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