Vendors perspective on a Cloud–based ERP
Several vendors are endorsing that their Cloud based ERP is the best option to be purseud; thus introducing their own version of terminologies and gathering requirements which eventually dispute with the true cloud based ERP.
1>MULTIPLE TENANCY:
From the vendors perspective in order to qualify for a cloud application, multiple useers are requuired must utlise the same software application. This is, however, can be productive in terms of future cost of upgrades and product updates through running similar infastructure.
Furthermore, multi tenancy occur at infrastructure level, platform levels and application levels. Optioning for multi-tenant infastructure and multi-tenant platform can be a trade off between achieving cost and flexibility. Depending on the company demand Multi-tenancy makes sense to option for application level only if the cost of software is low. Whereas, flexibility comes secondary.
2>INERNAL CLOUDS:
Also depending on the size of an organisation cloud server can be hosted internally. However, it can be argue that no matter the size of the company is, still difficult to hold the the cloud internally. Further limitation being company only consist of signle server making it impossible to add more capacity will be a major drawback.
3>PERSONAL HOSTING SERVER VS CLOUD:
The amount of data a company produces and hosted on personal server is a kind of an outsourcing its ERP operations. But if the company grows its operation adding more data, it is certainly make sense to host it on an external cloud because of capacity limitation. But major question of concerning whether the intellectual (data) is protected properly.
Article by; Noor Butt - 1466360
Reference: (Acumatica, 2015) Cloud Base ERP from vendors perspective
04 Apr 2015 21:14
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From Vendors perspective, it is worth to add that Cloud-based ERP makes their job easier because of following reasons:
- basic configuration designed to meet requirements of most businesses;
- limited range of options for configuration;
- time reduction for deployment;
- allows to add new business if required;
These reasons also give an opportunity for Vendors to expand their business.
07 Apr 2015, 12:46
To add to that, it doesn’t only make their job easier. I would say that in the long run it also makes in more profitable for the vendor. Due to the benefits of lover cost, less maintenance and quick implementation for the customers, smaller companies that wouldn’t have the resources or capacity to implement ERP to start with or new established companies that need a fast implementation might be more likely to go for a cloud based ERP solution rather then no ERP.
15 Apr 2015, 13:39
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