Cloud ERP set off a new wave of innovation

The gap between old ERP and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/14066.html "> Cloud ERP" is becoming larger as traditional local solutions become more and more transformed over the Internet.

Recent earnings reports from several web-based commercial software providers and a large number of announcements from new cloud ERP providers have clearly heralded a trend towards rapid adjustment of the business environment for software vendors and business customers.

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is not the most interesting thing, but they are the key to the company's efforts to remain competitive in an increasingly tough economic environment. This fundamental Foundation will continue to promote the need for innovative sources of information to be transmitted or to provide "the real conditions on which businesses rely to compete".

The rapidly growing demand for cloud ERP is largely driven by cost savings. The transition to web-based business applications improves productivity, which in turn facilitates cost savings.

Industry insiders have recently begun to notice a significant increase in the number of new ERP developers. They say it heralds a change in competition, and that older firms must adapt to this trend in order to keep their market share.

As a result, many veteran vendors such as Microsoft and SAP are starting to launch their own cloud solutions to meet the challenges that new rivals are launching in this area. There is a lot of uncertainty about whether these leaders will be able to keep their edge in the future, as they face not just a new platform but also the changes in marketing, pricing, support, organizational architecture and infrastructure that new cloud ERP solutions are facing.

A new wave of innovation

Some industry analysts point out that the current leading ERP software vendors and their system deployment partners find it difficult to transition to cloud-based solutions because deploying cloud-based ERP business processes reduces the need for time and money compared to the local solutions they have deployed in the past. But for those new and old users, this is one of the most attractive areas of cloud ERP.

The old local ERP solution will be targeted primarily at companies in the Fortune 2000 rankings, which can afford to hire experienced consultants to spend months or years in their company debugging software to meet their specific needs, both financially and in time. These old local ERP solutions are not only slow to deploy, but are also very slow to upgrade, because there are no cases to draw upon at the beginning of deployment. At the same time, technology upgrades need to cost millions of of dollars but there is no significant improvement in functionality and performance, which also inhibits the company's desire to upgrade.

The solution provided by the new cloud ERP provider has more external perceptual capabilities and reduces the need to deploy consultants to debug and test software.

The new ERP solution is primarily a simplification of the deployment process and a greater focus on special market requirements, and Plug and Play will truly become a reality, not a verbal one. In other words, the new solution will be designed on the basis of cloud and mobile devices, rather than simply putting old wines in new bottles.

In addition, users need to identify which innovations will enable them to succeed in transforming the deployment of cloud ERP. When deploying new ERP, they also need to face the challenges of system and process adjustment in the core business, such as data migration, business process streamlining, organizational tuning, and training.

On the other hand, new ERP vendors may find it difficult to compete with established local ERP providers at an early stage in information depth and maturity.

The "Out-of-the-box" feature of the ERP software (which requires deployment consultants to spend months looking for vulnerabilities and troubleshooting issues has become history) will become more and more important when manufacturers active at the forefront of the market will no longer receive thousands of user bailouts.

However, when new ERP providers can gather and mine data values within their customer base, they cannot derive added value from data aggregation and assessment, as older integrators do.

What is the solution?

Do the entrepreneurs and the old ERP providers join hands to launch some of the best ERP applications for SMEs? The answer is No.

On the contrary, veteran ERP vendors are acquiring cloud solutions to try out some of their cloud solutions, or simply to integrate cloud-based, isolated applications and hand over cumbersome and thorough integration to their clients and their clients ' advisers.

At present, cloud ERP is working with customers and investors to promote a new wave of innovation to enhance the ability of manufacturers. At present we are not sure whether these old ERP providers can keep up with the pace of innovation. Only time will suffice to tell us what the final answer is. (Gundy compilation)

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