Background and Definitions
Cloud technologies are currently being hyped and advocated by all software vendors. Almost every ERP, virtualization, infrastructure, and application vendor says that their software takes advantage of the cloud. The cloud has become synonymous with successful, modern, well developed software. As companies promote the cloud, the differences between a SaaS offering, web-based...
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At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference, I asked several folks to participate in an informal one-question survey. The question was “What is an ERP system?”
All of the Microsoft partners I spoke with were well versed in software and know their specific area of expertise. Many used acronyms such as LMS and RMS without thinking...
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The recent Intuit outage (reported by Mark Hachman in PC Magazine) has raised some skepticism about the viability and future of cloud-based software and services. Coming off the heels of NetSuite’s outage in April and the recent Sage outage, it got us thinking more about what enterprises fundamentally need to do to keep their...
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Consona recently acquired open-source ERP provider Compiere (press release). This post will examine the merger from the perspective of ERP VARs (value added resellers).
What’s Missing – the Value Added Reseller
As an open-source company, Compiere was predisposed to work with the community including value added resellers that could profit from configuring ERP to customer needs....
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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 up nicely by...
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Overview:In a previous post, we described the differences between SaaS and hosted applications. In this article, we explain how cloud technology can be used to improve hosting options and deliver a strong SaaS environment.
Cloud Infrastructure and it’s impact on Hosting and SaaS
Cloud technology enables SaaS and powerful new forms of hosting that can...
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Today, we invite Houston Neal to share some insights regarding his findings about SaaS ERP in the manufacturing space.
Software Advice, a website that reviews software for manufacturers, recently hosted a roundtable discussion on the state of the manufacturing ERP software industry. They teamed up with four ERP industry insiders to report on activity in...
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Many vendors are moving their applications to the cloud to capitalize on press opportunities. Recent announcements from EMC, Lawson, and Epicor repeat the same message – don’t upgrade your application, upgrade your infrastructure. At ERP Cloud News, we believe that you need to upgrade your application to take full advantage of all the benefits...
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