Open source cloud computing ERP future mainstream?

In the industry, there is a view that migrating CRM and ERP applications to the cloud is a very important trend. Clearly this trend is in line with business development needs. At present, the ERP market has experienced the challenge of financial crisis, it budget reduction, ERP vendors face the painted door, the implementation of the success rate of the query, the entire ERP market seems to be facing unprecedented chaotic scene. The emergence of the financial crisis, let enterprises begin to pay more attention to the importance of management, in the last two years of recovery period, enterprises for investment, whether it is the enterprise's IT investment, or business investment, are more cautious, at the same time, the impact of the crisis on open source products, cloud computing products at one point of concern. In the Enterprise informatization construction, when is the ERP most important, the most understanding, according to the data survey data shows, at this stage of the enterprise has 52.4% of enterprises deployed ERP system, in 52.4% of ERP deployment enterprise, we found that the ERP system based on cloud computing began to be the concern of enterprises.

The current situation of ERP based on open source cloud computing

We know that the key benefits of an ERP application are faster implementation of value, minimum or 0 capital expenditures, minimal operational and management costs, less needed IT resources (both foreground and background), and easier implementation and integration. These huge benefits are driving CEOs, CIOs and CFOs to reconsider their approach to doing business, not only to save costs, but also to remain competitive in the market.

But with the occurrence of the crisis, affected by business development factors, for the enterprise IT budget investment is very cautious, some enterprises in the consideration of ERP, will choose some deployment of fast and Low-cost ERP system to help enterprises through the crisis, at the same time, can protect the normal operation of business. Therefore, ERP based on the cloud computing solution of the above problems.

Cloud computing ERP, although now in the initial stage, facing a lot of problems, but the future development will inevitably become the development trend of enterprises. We know that cloud computing e R P can provide customers with low-cost, on-demand, secure and reliable power supply services, to provide customers with the use of ERP software services. For customers, cloud computing is also divided into "public cloud computing Services" and "private cloud computing Services" two. In fact, cloud computing combines the advantages of open source software and SaaS, and technically solves problems such as large-scale parallel computing, data distribution storage, real-time data backup, high application integration, secure and personalized application, so it is very beneficial for users to deploy ERP.

For enterprises that consider converting from onsite ERP applications to open source or web-based ERP applications, they should ensure that they make the right arrangements to integrate the cloud applications or web-based ERP solutions that best suit their organization.

There is a point of view, the future of the application of the trend is in fact a big fusion, should not be the general meaning or the situation, but the integration of the key network applications, the traditional way to rely on the sale of software basically no market, reached the consensus that the software as a service to sell, this is an But what kind of services can create maximum value for customers, the adoption of cloud computing architecture, the deployment of open source software, SaaS delivery method of cloud computing ERP services is an inevitable trend.

Cloud computing has become the hottest technology in the current IT industry, cloud computing ERP is a fact, there are three levels, first is the computing function, the second is the storage function, and finally rose to the application layer. As open source software is the most centralized application level, the vast majority of internet-based software is the so-called B/s structure of software, is the most suitable SaaS, cloud computing services software, we can even say to open source software, cloud computing software, SaaS software, such as the relationship between the shadow problem. Customer service through the cloud computing model actually inherits the real business model of open source software products free of charge and service charges.

Implementation advantages of cloud computing ERP

Data show that the enterprise in the deployment of cloud computing ERP information solutions have a certain cost-effective advantages, the author collected data summary, think that there are mainly the following points:

(1) can be able to save a large number of enterprises cost

Compared with the traditional enterprise information application model, cloud computing ERP allows customers to purchase no additional hardware, no need to install software, no need to hire it technicians, only need to lease the enterprise management software in the cloud through the SaaS model, and the enterprise can decide which module to buy and how many concurrent users to buy. , buy how long to use the term and cloud computing ERP is from the development of open source ERP, inherited the open source ERP software as a service characteristics, for customers only to pay service fees, without sharing the software license fee, the enterprise's investment can start from dozens of yuan.

(2) Cloud computing ERP simplifies complex applications

Since cloud computing ERP is a technical framework supported by the landing of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Concepts, a Super service system composed of large server clusters, highly reliable and highly available system platforms, and cloud computing architecture ERP can achieve the performance of supercomputers. It can be said that only through the way of cloud computing, ERP can be such a complex application to achieve online use.

(3) cloud computing ERP to break the data island

Cloud Computing ERP Product function integration covers the enterprise production, supply chain, customer relationship, human resources, finance, Office, E-commerce and other business processes, to avoid the system function is not integrated, the emergence of data islands and other drawbacks. Due to the integration of thousands of functional modules in cloud computing ERP, small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises can combine business functions through advanced template technology.

(4) ERP based on cloud computing will be more secure

Cloud computing ERP using server cluster plus a high reliability of the data Center architecture, the system can achieve balanced load, real-time backup, disaster disaster recovery backup, at the same time the system also adopted a strict authority control, unauthorized features are not visible, support SSL sockets Layer encryption transmission, to prevent information from being illegally intercepted or illegally leaked, Key data uses leading encryption storage technology, supports CA digital authentication, and supports remote security identity verification.　In the provision of complete security operation technology means, but also for small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises to provide a sound operational security provisions, exempt the enterprise's worries. Open source cloud computing ERP future mainstream?

Cloud computing ERP, there are so many advantages, then, whether cloud computing is a scourge? Will it let open source software lose its vitality? The rise of cloud computing, so that open source software has faced unprecedented challenges, but this crisis can be improved through the current open source license, and even some new open source agreement to solve, in fact, more should be seen is the cloud computing for the open source of ERP brought great development opportunities.

According to the data, cloud computing for the open source of ERP brought about by the huge development opportunities mainly embodies several aspects:

First, we must recognize several key elements of open source success or survival, an architecture that allows a program to be reused wherever it is possible, as well as extensible, including reuse of code and reuse of modular functionality The most important point is the low threshold, which not only users can easily use, for developers, can easily modify and share code on this platform.

Second, cloud computing, as a platform that can be based on open source software, may not be open source, but it does not preclude openness, or that the platform can exist as a reusable component. Open source advocates the reuse of code, and cloud computing advocates the reusability of services. Cloud computing can extend the application of open source software simply by encapsulating the code as a module or a subsystem.

Third, the success of open source from the user's development and use of the low threshold, and the development of cloud computing will lead to large-scale open source applications and deployment, which to some extent reduce the threshold of open source software entry, but also active open source community two development and application promotion. At the same time, the cloud computing platform may be private, but its running software can have commercial software and open source software choice, all software on the cloud platform will be open source, the main reason is that the current private software license does not support the way cloud computing deployment.

Finally, although open source does not prevent cloud providers from blocking, it allows developers to deploy Open-source software in cloud computing at least, and with the development of cloud computing platforms, more new Open-source software and applications will be generated. Predictably, with the cloud computing the concept of ERP constantly clear, the major ERP manufacturers in this field will increase investment, there will be more excellent open source project was born.

About ERP

ERP is Enterprise Resource calculates (Enterprise resource plan) abbreviation, is an American IT company in the 90 's of the last century according to then computer information, it technology development and Enterprise to supply chain management demand, Forecast in the future Information Age Enterprise Management Information system development trend and impending change, and put forward this concept. ERP system is an integrated enterprise management software for material resource Management (logistics), human resource management (flow), financial resource management (wealth flow), information resource management (flow). A concept developed by Gartner Group that describes the next generation manufacturing business systems and manufacturing Resource planning (MRP II) software. It will include a customer/service architecture, using a graphical user interface, and applying an open system fabrication. In addition to the existing standard features, it includes other features such as quality, process management, and adjustment reports. In particular, the basic technology used in ERP will also give users both software and hardware independence and thus easier to upgrade. The key to ERP is that all users can tailor their applications and thus have a natural ease of use. However, ERP itself is not management, it can not replace management.

About Cloud computing:

Cloud computing (Cloud Computing) is the development of distributed processing (distributed Computing), parallel processing (Parallel Computing) and Grid computing (grid Computing), or the business implementation of these computer science concepts. The basic principle of cloud computing is that enterprise data centers run more like the Internet by distributing computations across a large number of distributed computers rather than on local computers or remote servers. This allows the enterprise to switch resources to the required applications and to access the computer and storage systems as needed.