SaaS and Cloud Computing…It Just Makes Sense for Small-to-Mid-Sized Businesses

February 3, 2011
By grippen
SaaS and Cloud Computing…It Just Makes Sense for Small-to-Mid-Sized Businesses

Post sponsored by Acumatica. Content/ideas in this post are provided by Acumatica and may not reflect the views of ERP Cloud News. Learn more about Acumatica Cloud ERP. Cloud and SaaS – Enterprise Capabilities Included I saw a line in an article recently that drove home a good point regarding the power of SaaS...
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Cloud Computing Reaches the Masses

January 27, 2011
By djohnson
Cloud Computing Reaches the Masses

Cloud computing is everywhere. Some more evidence was in the Fall/Winter edition of Scholastic Administrator Magazine that dedicated a special section of their publication to Cloud computing. An Information Passing Exercise In school we performed an exercise where an instructor told a story to a student who then repeated what he could remember to...
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Selling Cloud ERP with Feet on the Street

January 18, 2011
By djohnson
Selling Cloud ERP with Feet on the Street

It’s ironic that in order to sell Cloud ERP, you need “feet on the street.” According to the lastest from SAP’s Business ByDesign, they have over 250 feet on the street. In Bob Scott’s Insights, Kevin Gilroy, VP of channels at SAP says that the goal is to have “1,000 feet on the street”...
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ERP Implementation Costs and Cloud Software

January 12, 2011
By grippen
ERP Implementation Costs and Cloud Software

In his preview of Panorama’s 2011 ERP Report, Eric Kimberling says that ERP implementation costs continue to decline. Similar to what we saw in implementations completed in 2009, implementation costs and durations appear to be on the decline again in 2010. The average ERP software total cost of ownership was $5.5 million in 2010,...
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ERP Software Predictions – 2011

December 30, 2010
By djohnson
ERP Software Predictions – 2011

ERP Cloud News has filtered through many 2011 predictions and delivered our summary of what the experts are saying. Here are links to the top predictions (found elsewhere on the net) along with our commentary. Selected Cloud and ERP Predictions – 2011 Panorama Consulting published its Top Ten ERP Software Predictions for 2011. On...
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Federal Government Working to Promote Faster Adoption of Cloud Computing

December 15, 2010
By grippen
Federal Government Working to Promote Faster Adoption of Cloud Computing

The Federal government has recently established FEDRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) in order to provide a standard approach for government agencies to assess and authorize the use of Cloud computing within the various agencies of the Federal government. Since the various agencies have varying security requirements and multiple agencies are not compatible...
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