Nowadays, a significant number of companies run their ERP application on-prem. They purchase licenses and run the application on an outsourced infrastructure or in their data centre. The big ERP players have been changing their business focus for a while. It goes more in the direction towards cloud SaaS solutions. Technically the ERP application runs on the ERP player’s infrastructure. The Product is now called a service and offered as a subscription in many different flavours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In principle, you can subscribe, and that’s it. Let us briefly stop and re-think the scenario from A to Z.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The movement mentioned above is significantly impacting the end-user and their companies. It comes with up-sides and flip-sides, depending on how you, as a user\/company, look at it. However, it is something that needs serious consideration.
If you plan to move things like accounting, finance, HR, travel expenses, SCM or other functional blocks to a SaaS ERP, some considerations may help to start a good journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The points below are intended to check and completed for a move to a cloud project. I’m happy to debate and participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pre-Checks<\/strong> Project organization<\/strong> Project challenges<\/strong> Nowadays, a significant number of companies run their ERP application on-prem. They purchase licenses and run the application on an outsourced infrastructure or in their data centre. The big ERP players have been changing their business focus for a while. It goes more in the direction towards cloud SaaS solutions. Technically the ERP application runs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,34,29,26,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-model","category-digital-trust","category-digitalization","category-finance","category-processes","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalization.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalization.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalization.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalization.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalization.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalization.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalization.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalization.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalization.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalization.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 Sort out the terms on-prem, cloud (hosting), hosting and SaaS.
\u2022 Running a pure SaaS solution means it goes by the standard.
\u2022 Legal requirements like data protection\/privacy, retention policies, and SAAS ops sites have an impact.
\u2022 The SaaS costs may not that transparent as they may seem (consider the number of tenants, the yearly amount of data stored, the retention policies,\u2026).
\u2022 Monthly updates, is that something your company can deal with?
\u2022 Application management in the cloud is something different compared with on-prem.
\u2022 Infrastructural impact – how is the cloud ERP interacting with other components and systems in the IT landscape?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Develop a clear migration concept, considering data migration, services, interfaces, reconciliation and cut-over.
\u2022 Allocate internal resources that can effectively cope with the project (capacity, knowledge and project-wise)
\u2022 Pick a professional distributor for the ERP technical work stream
\u2022 Readiness check regarding processes, especially financial processes such as MEC, YE and audits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Data structures
\u2022 Data migration \/ historical
\u2022 Functionality, down stripping of tailor-made adoptions
\u2022 Interfaces may significantly change (file and DB vs API).
\u2022 External system integration can cascade workload towards other infrastructural components.
\u2022 External devices, such as scanners, printers, barcode readers, etc.
\u2022 User, rights, views individual settings
\u2022 \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"