SaaS subversion ERP
SaaS for its low cost, flexibility, ease of use characteristics of the construction of enterprise information to become the new darling of concern, therefore, whether foreign sales force, or a local company 800 SaaS customers, have put forward the "SaaS will be the management software, Terminator "argument.
In this regard, with SAP,OracleAnd other management software giant has been led by a cautious approach, although the two have a corresponding SaaS solutions. "Although SAP's slow progress in this market, but we are committed to provide users with on-Demand end to end solution approach is unique." SAP Global Senior Executive Director of SI Kit, Peter John, said he also said, according to SAP's product road map, in 2010, SAP will launch a new generation of On-Demand solution.
Although SaaS is more suitable for the SME market, but rather natural for them, their need is still able to contain a variety of features packaged software, as these small and medium enterprises on the one hand through the application of technology to achieve competitive differentiation, and the other context, I hope to sort out the entire business process, so they need a set of solutions, rather than limited to a certain sub-area.
Based on this understanding, SAP Labs India president said: "We are not anxious to SAP Business ByDesign product to market we need to take a step back to further improve the products and technologies, and more to meet the market demand." As the SaaS and cloud computing integration, making SAP began conducting On-Demand product development process, attaches great importance to the combination of cloud computing, since there is no where a company can provide users with end to end IT solutions, therefore, SAP in the This is also being sought with IBM, Microsoft, cloud computing in the fields.
As for the relationship between SaaS and ERP, SI Kit, John Mathew that, On-Demand (On Demand) software solution for enterprise software applications will become the trend, the future period of time, on-demand software and pre-installed software will also take the form of a mixture of there, for those non-critical part of the process, on-demand software will become mainstream.
From these it seems clear that for a long period of time, SaaS and ERP will still co-exist, or mixed use, SaaS will not be quick to subvert the ERP. Even if the scale toward SaaS applications, it provides to users is also not just a single function, but need to cover all aspects of business management, so that way, not so much a SaaS, might as well say that the traditional ERP converted into online delivery of ERP. |
