Organizations looking to migrate to the cloud need to be aware of not only the rewards the transition will bring, but also the risks associated. While the knowledge of the gains will provide the motivation for completing the process well, a good idea of the possible pitfalls is essential to make sure there are no gaps in the...
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Although SaaS was one of the earliest developments in cloud computing, the practice is yet to mature. One problem often faced is that SaaS in the cloud is substantially different from SaaS served through traditional and on-premise methods, which makes correct deployment that much more difficult.The best path to adopt is to follow...
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Organizations that have always relied on data stored on-premise are often encouraged to give cloud hosting a try. The reason is that cloud hosting enjoys certain benefits that can be a huge value-add for the business involved. For instance, data management is reduced to a logical problem rather than a physical and logical one, and...
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Cloud computing has become diverse enough now to warrant consulting. Any enterprise that wishes to make the transition to the cloud or benefit by moving a specialized part of its business, needs to understand the various cloud computing models available. Let’s look at the popular delivery models and what they mean for...
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Because of the dynamic and complex nature of everyday business transactions, managing sales is a special challenge for enterprises. While sales in the traditional sense has been perfected long ago, tracking and forecasting are the upcoming areas of promise. The problem is that the existing workflows in a typical modern business are...
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When cloud computing is mentioned, business transformation automatically comes to mind. That’s because the fundamental tenet of cloud computing is not putting a small portion of your business in the cloud, but complete business transformation from within. And as every business is composed of two very important entities, people and...
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Cloud computing is going through interesting times of innovation. First we saw Software-as-a-Service where software was no more installed on the machine it was used on; then came along Infrastructure-as-a-Service, which recognized the need for scalable infrastructure at a fraction of the cost. But newer models of cloud computing are...
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Is cloud computing only for huge players who can afford to spend a lot building up a cloud infrastructure? For a while it was true, as cloud computing was new and vendors were still testing the waters. But the truth is that there are a lot of solutions now being aimed at small businesses, allowing them to improve processes and cut...
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The cloud is everywhere, and almost every type of enterprise is benefitting from it. This also has some implications for ERP solutions, which until now have been solely on-premise, and let’s be honest, harder to manage for small and medium businesses. Here are some of the most compelling reasons for moving your ERP solution to the...
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In the first two parts, we spoke about what cloud service providers undertake to do, which would in part take away the IT pain and would provide the necessary sustenance to your IT assets. Convergence enables the merge of power technologies and people capabilities by helping consumers to realize complex IT capabilities in a simple...
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