The following pros and cons were posited by Doug Henschen of TechWeb.com in the April 9, 2012 issue of InformationWeek magazine. In it, Henschen discusses Microsoft’s plans to deliver its ERP software as cloud services. While cloud-based demand for ERP is in its nascent stages, and by our observation very limited, cloud-based ERP does represent [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’
Quick Takes on Microsoft’s ERP-In-The-Cloud Plan
Posted in General ERP Articles, tagged cloud computing, Dynamics cloud pros and cons, InformationWeek article, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, NAV on May 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Two Views of The Cloud: Part 2 of 2
Posted in Bidness, and Other Current Economic Realities, tagged big data in the cloud, cloud computing on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In our previous post we looked at one downside to cloud computing: when the part of the cloud where your data resides is down. Today, we’ll look at the bright side… Cloud computing is the future. When may not be clear, but ‘inevitably’ is a fair enough answer. Now, some applications lend themselves better to [...]
The Cloud: A Contrarian Voice From A Software Legend
Posted in Software, Technology, and Wow I Didn't Know That, tagged cloud computing, james goodnight on December 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
James Goodnight is co-founder and CEO of SAS Institute, the world’s leading data analytics firm, and as legendary a CEO as his firm is for being one of the great companies in the world for which to work. At 68, and after decades at the helm of one of the most successful and roundly praised [...]
Cloud Pluses and Minuses
Posted in Software, Technology, and Wow I Didn't Know That, tagged cloud computing, Cloud pluses and minuses, SaaS on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Gartner research is predicting that cloud (or Internet-hosted) software as a service (SaaS) applications will reach revenues of over $21 billion within the next four years. While such predictions are frequently touted, what I found interesting was less the level of growth, than the accompanying sidebar on factors promoting and limiting SaaS adoption. In an [...]
Clouds: Private vs. Public
Posted in Software, Technology, and Wow I Didn't Know That, tagged cloud, cloud computing, Global Access Point, private clouds, private vs. public clouds, South Bend Union Station on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the buzz of all the talk about Cloud computing these days, ComputerWorld, in a recent article, makes an illuminating point: While nearly half (47%) of surveyed IT professionals would put their resources into a “private” cloud (i.e., an internal cloud infrastructure whereby applications are served up only to company staff or an otherwise restricted [...]
Expert Advice on Cloud Computing
Posted in Software, Technology, and Wow I Didn't Know That, tagged cloud computing, Forbes Ask an Expert, Is cloud computing for you, Philip McKinney of HP on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
While industry is abuzz with talk about cloud computing – essentially, using on-demand servers over the internet – the truth is, not every business needs to operate in the cloud. Philip McKinney, Hewlett-Packard’s chief technology officer in its personal systems group, recently touched on five key criteria to consider in a Forbes Ask An Expert [...]
Microsoft Dynamics and ‘The Cloud’ (Part 2 of 2)
Posted in Software, Technology, and Wow I Didn't Know That, tagged cloud computing, ERP systems, Hunter Richards and Software Advice, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics NAV on January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In our previous post, we introduced this article by Hunter Richards of Software Advice proffering four reasons why Microsoft Dynamics four ERP offerings may be less than cloud-ready solutions today. We provided article info and background in our previous post — which you should read first — and listed his first two arguments. In today’s conclusion [...]
A Better ‘Cloud’?
Posted in Bidness, and Other Current Economic Realities, Software, Technology, and Wow I Didn't Know That, tagged cloud computing, cut costs, IT, virtualization on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While much of the IT industry is abuzz about the idea of ‘cloud computing’ (applications and storage served up over the Internet from large server farms at the likes of Amazon and Microsoft), many industry experts see it in the near-term not as a Year of the Cloud, but maybe, eventually, gradually the Decade of [...]
What’s in The Cloud… For Me? (Part 3 of 3)
Posted in SERIES: Cloud Computing Basics (3 posts), Software, Technology, and Wow I Didn't Know That, tagged cloud, cloud advantages and disadvantages, cloud computing on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Part Three of a Three Part Series So, in our prior posts we talked a bit about The Cloud, and a few of the obvious advantages and (sometimes not so) obvious disadvantages. So, who is it for, and is it for me? You be the judge. Who’s it for? Well, for one, people who need [...]
What’s in The Cloud… For Me? (Part 2 of 3)
Posted in SERIES: Cloud Computing Basics (3 posts), Software, Technology, and Wow I Didn't Know That, tagged cloud, cloud computing, SaaS, Software as a Service on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Part Two of a Three Part Series In my previous post, we looked at The Cloud – what it is, simply stated (computing over the Internet) — and some of the advantages of this much-hyped new computing paradigm that takes advantage of the growing ubiquity of the Internet. Here, we’ll look at a few disadvantages [...]
