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2011: The Year of SaaS ERP?
Will 2011 finally be the year of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in the cloud? While adoption of other forms of SaaS-based enterprise applications—CRM, HCM, expense management—has continued to...
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HP and Cloud Computing: A Polygamous Marriage
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer made the bold statement in 2010 that his company was “all in” on cloud computing. At a strategy powwow this week, HP’s new CEO Léo Apotheker seemed to offer a more nuanced...
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Cloud Computing and the ERP Customer
Existing ERP customers may be hesitant to move their software to the cloud not because of the oft-heard worries about security or control, but because it seems like paying twice for the same software....
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One Throat to Choke in the Cloud
Cloud computing changes the conversation when something goes wrong deep in the data center, as Amazon’s recent service outage shows us. Cloud computing poster child Amazon sullied its own good name...
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Protecting Customer Data in the Cloud
Even the experts can’t seem to get cyber-security right. Wouldn’t you like to get out of the business of guarding your customers’ data? During a closed-door cyber-security meeting last month, I...
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Is SaaS Sabotaging Enterprise Integration Efforts?
Hosted applications remove the burden of buying and maintaining hardware, but off-premise systems could cause data integration problems that require serious consideration in any purchase decision....
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SAP, Oracle Give Cloud Computing Business Cred
A new form of computing, already gaining popularity among the masses, now has business credibility with SAP’s $3.4 billion takeover of SuccessFactors. Cloud computing just got interesting. Pundits...
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