Nobody likes a forcing function. But sometimes, it takes one of those to compel action. In today’s blog, I wanted to touch on how a made-to-order manufacturer finally decided to commit to moving their ERP to the cloud after a black swan event that has shaken up the organization. This was a tip-off that...
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In a recent Panorama Consulting blog post, Eric Kimberling discusses if SaaS ERP is right for everyone. In the analysis, he says: The fact of the matter is that SaaS ERP systems are still not as flexible as on-premise solutions. While this may change, it is generally more difficult to change SaaS offerings to...
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Warning: customers care about results, not about infrastructure. The focus of this article will be on how different infrastructures can influence customer results. What is a multi-tenant architecture Journalists and marketers are proclaiming that multi-tenant cloud architectures are the wave of the future. Let’s start by trying to define multi-tenant SaaS. Wikipedia sums it...
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Kim Nash, in CIO Magazine article, ERP: How and Why You Need to Manage It Differently, thinks that it might be time to re-write ERP. Today ERP is the Jack Nicholson of software: Its repertoire hackneyed, the old and expensive dog finds it hard to learn new tricks. It’s become a legacy technology, and...
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An article in CMS by Eric Kimberling inspired a part III to our customizing SaaS ERP posts. In Part I, we looked at the question of whether to customize a SaaS ERP deployment. In Part II, we examined the sources of SaaS and customization savings and advised flexibility. Now we look at some percentages...
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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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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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