The product quality and service in the cloud era is the key for ERP manufacturers to win

The rise of cloud computing has brought new development opportunity for enterprise management software vendors, as an important part of Enterprise informatization, many domestic ERP software providers have started to provide the new ERP based on cloud environment. The first foray into the cloud market, to promote http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/14066.html "> Cloud ERP Advantage, is probably a lot of ERP providers to first popularize the market early strategy." But we should be more calm to realize that, whether the traditional environment or cloud environment, ERP providers should improve their own product quality and after-sales service as a prerequisite.

ERP as the mainstream of information software has been popular since the 2000, but from the domestic situation, and foreign enterprises such as Oracle, SAP, compared to domestic ERP still seems passable. With the rise of cloud computing, traditional ERP vendors began to play "cloud computing card", trying to seize the opportunity of cloud computing opportunities again.

Cost is a stumbling block to the popularization of ERP, millions or even tens cost makes many enterprises to be deterred. From hardware deployment, training, and even later maintenance and team building issues, the enterprise deployment of ERP can be said to be wasteful behavior. And cloud ERP inherits SaaS, open source software to use software as service characteristic, let the customer obtain the ERP service through the network, the customer does not install the hardware server, does not install the software, does not need to establish the data center room, does not have the specialized IT maintenance team, does not have to pay the upgrade expense Enterprises or individuals need only a personal computer and Internet connection such infrastructure can use professional ERP software. Compared with the disadvantages of the traditional ERP projects, such as high cost, high risk, high-energy consumption, repetitive construction and limitation of use, the advantages of cloud ERP are obvious.

Therefore, it is focused on the future of huge market space, layout cloud market become more ERP and other software manufacturers present and future one of the important strategies. For example, not long ago and good software has launched its own private cloud environment for the ERP product "CERP". Coincidentally, and all cloudy ERP products similar, and good Cerp also played low-cost, flexible, information security, input controllable and other advantages.

But in the author's eyes, in many cloud concept products under the hat, for the implementation of ERP enterprises, more should be calm treatment. First of all, we need to understand the hidden dangers and deficiencies of the cloud ERP, and then to recognize the characteristics and needs of their own information, and then carry out targeted selection and deployment.

First, cloud computing is still in the initial stage, cloud computing products how to seamlessly migrate the cloud environment, for domestic manufacturers are still in the trial and exploration period. Cloud security is still subject to a lot of criticism. Because the cloud environment is mainly based on the network, therefore, once the network has a large area of failure, the system will not work; Secondly, because ERP system generally involves a large amount of data and trade secret of enterprise internal operation, how to protect the core secret privacy of the enterprise is a very challenging topic for the development of cloud computing model. Involves the system, the legal safeguard, the model security design and so on many factors.

China Foundry Association Two Fusion Service center Director Chao in an interview with Sadie, said that information security is a relative problem, whether the application side or platform side, there is no confusion on the one hand out of the problem will be hidden. He pointed out that the risk of cloud ERP and traditional ERP exists in fact the same degree of risk. On the current ERP technology, from the development, operation to the migration cloud, there are many problems to note that the value of the cloud ERP will still need a long way to go, have advantages but also have limitations.

So in the early stages of cloud computing, enterprise deployment cloud ERP more need to calm treatment, can not be those "low-cost, Low-risk" and other seductive nouns induced and blindly online, according to their own characteristics, clear their own needs, and ERP has a full understanding of the possibility of correct selection of products; Whether it is the traditional environment or cloud environment, for like and good cloud ERP provider, good product quality and after-sales service is the ultimate success of the key factors to win the business.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)