Cloud a Key Part of ‘Postmodern ERP’
May 27, 2014
Grazed from EnterpriseAppsToday. Author: Tim Wilson.
For big vendors like Oracle and SAP, cloud ERP means a change in culture. But what about their customers? ERP is changing. Large ERP vendors like Oracle and SAP are now active participants in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-based platforms.
True, they were late to the party, mostly because they didn’t know what to do with technologies and business models that did not revolve around on-premise software. Now, however, few can deny that legacy ERP has to face the cloud…
"The mistake that some people made was the belief that these large, monolithic, all-encompassing on-premise systems represented the end of the line for ERP," said Andy Kyte, a vice president and Gartner fellow in London, England. "The thought was that there was no need to do anything different, because ERP could do everything. But it is pretty clear now that was not true."…
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