The Confluence of Cloud and ERP
Cloud computing is unquestionably changing the landscape of how traditional enterprise software is being licensed and implemented. Enabling ERP functionality into service-based, on-demand workloads is not only transforming time to implement, but the economics is dramatically changing where much of the costs are spread over longer periods of time rather than large upfront costs. This can be a tremendous benefit to organizations. Additionally, although there are security, compliance, and privacy considerations, moving critical applications to industry leading data centers can help improve organizations business continuity, disaster recovery, performance and scalability capabilities. The Role of Big Data Analytics The application for Big Data is extending into many different areas. ERP is no exception. However, with any analytics initiative, it’s important to understand the underlying performance and trending metrics the organization is focused on capturing. From there, they c