Posts tagged with "Cloud Integration"

The cloud and cloud-based solutions are here to stay. This will continue to drive business solutions for a long time. Why? Clear and measurable benefits below i believe are the top 4 reasons : 1. Almost zero upfront infrastructure investment 2. Just-in-time Infrastructure 3. More efficient resource utilization 4. The possibility of usage-based costing on your back office applications Cloud is a disruptive force. However, the cloud’s “Achilles heel” is a lack of integration with the rest of the enterprise. Realizing its full potential relies, for the foreseeable future, on integrating data in the cloud with on-premise applications and databases. Today’s enterprise cloud initiatives require decoupled ... READ MORE

Cloud ERP systems are getting a lot of attention these days. SaaS ERP vendors – such as Salesforce, Workday, Plex Systems and NetSuite – and other cloud providers are demonstrating revenue growth that most traditional ERP vendors aren’t seeing. In addition, many industry pundits already have their epitaphs prepared for the allegedly inevitable death of traditional ERP software as we know it. The Panorama team helps many clients implement ERP systems each year and we simply don’t see the need to start making funeral arrangements for the enterprise software industry as we know it – at least not yet. While smaller ... READ MORE

Companies are relentlessly searching for improved measures to maximize their cloud potential in order to gain competitive advantage over their competitors. And, many of them believe that they can only derive best results by developing fully customized applications in-house. Both developing personalized application and synchronizing applications to cloud have advantages as well as disadvantages and a company needs to evaluate all its options to determine the best strategy for itself. Advantages of Developing Your Apps You may consider building personalized business applications in the following cases: When you have limited or small requirement for a project that needs immediate solution. But this should be ... READ MORE

In today’s always-on, hyper-connected world, technology has become a critical lynchpin for business success. Increasingly, businesses of all sizes view technology as an essential to improving customer engagement, raising employee productivity, and creating innovation and differentiation—all vital ingredients for building economic value. You don’t need to take my word for it. For the first time since IBM began conducting its Global CEO Study eight years ago, study respondents identified technology as “the most important external force impacting their organization” in the most recent 2012 IBM study. It looks like these respondents are right. In the SMB Group’s 2011 SMB Routes to Market ... READ MORE

Matthieu Hug, CEO of RunMyProcess, joins us for an in-depth discussion on developments in the cloud market. What makes a company stand out in a crowded industry? What's most exciting about the cloud space today? What does the reinvention of enterprise IT mean for the future? RunMyProcess is a cloud integrator based out of Paris, France, with a global partner network. Their focus is on enabling companies to rapidly deploy new processes across the breadth of their business. For more on RunMyProcess, please visit their website.  What is your company's mission? Our mission is to allow enterprises to build and deploy new operational applications ... READ MORE

This week, both Google and Microsoft announced their new cloud storage services, bringing up questions of whether rival Dropbox will continue to dominate in the cloud storage and file sharing sphere. On Monday, Microsoft announced new SkyDrive apps, updates to their cloud storage service, as well as the fact that they're reducing the amount of free storage from 25GB to 7GB. That seems like a huge decrease, but in their statement released Monday, Microsoft determined that 7GB was plenty of space for 99% of SkyDrive users. Existing users who want to keep their 25GB limit are free to do so, ... READ MORE

The cloud continues to be a hot topic among IT departments and business users alike. Industry analysts Gartner recently stated that 95% of companies are interested in maintaining or increasing their usage of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) functionality. This survey involved 270 IT and business professionals from North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The success of the cloud has sparked a growing number of vendors, from start-ups to software giants like SAP, to enter the market. Yet, while interest in the cloud is high, only 39% of the surveyed professionals have a company policy in place for how to move to the cloud. ... READ MORE