Unravelling a Tangled Web of Cloud ERP Alliances
June 30, 2015
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.
PgK<6hA2Cloud computing can always make for strange bedfellows, but when it comes to Unit4, a provider of ERP applications that is in the process of expanding its presence in North America, channel partners will need to check their scorecards.
Unit4 is a roll up of several application providers, the best known of which is Coda, a provider of financial software. To initially enter the U.S. market Unit4 formed a joint venture with Salesforce to create FinancialForce.com. Now the company is moving to bring the rest of its application portfolio to the cloud via an alliance with Microsoft…
Instead of deciding to deploy that software in the Salesforce cloud, Unit4 CEO Jose Duarte said Unit4 opted for the Microsoft Azure cloud because by definition the company’s ERP cloud applications will be deployed in hybrid cloud computing environments. As such, while the Salesforce cloud platform is viable for cloud native applications, when it comes to traditional enterprise applications running on premise and in the cloud Duarte said the Microsoft Azure cloud makes more sense in terms of how Unit4 customers will actually embrace cloud computing…
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