Moving CRM and ERP to the cloud
The general direction of software deployments is to the cloud and if your CRM and ERP applications are currently on premise it is likely that you have, or will have, the opportunity to move them to the cloud in the future.
Some of the benefits of moving the CRM and ERP applications to the cloud are:
It removes the support and maintenance responsibilities from the in-house IT department
The CRM and ERP applications will be available to users all the time, 24x7
The CRM and ERP applications will be accessible from everywhere, both inside and outside the company firewall
There are potential savings to be made on operating costs
One disadvantage for integration developers is that software that runs on the cloud is typically less open to customization than software that runs on the customer's premise. In our integration designs, we assumed a relatively high degree of flexibility, and control, over how the CRM application can be customized to build an integration. There...
