Think back a couple of decades. If you were a facsimile machine salesman, and had the chance to evaluate enterprise email as it begun to take off, would you have leapt at the opportunity? Or would you have stuck to what was comfortable, and risk getting relegated to the sidelines in the wake of...
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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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You should never be locked into one vendor, and should ALWAYS be able to walk away from a service provider that is providing service levels that are below par. But how realistic is that when it comes to cloud service providers? If you’re not happy with the service that you receive, take your business...
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In a recent CRN article, Sage became the most recent vendor to create new SaaS (subscription based) pricing for their ERP products. If resellers make more money from SaaS in the long run, does that mean that customers pay more? SaaS ERP more expensive in Long Run In the CRN article, Joe Langner, EVP...
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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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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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