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Agenda
Traditional ERPs What is SaaS, PaaS, IaaS Entering the world of Cloud Computing How an ERP fits in Cloud? Cloud ERP Screenshots What do we get?

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Traditional ERPs

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Famous Ones
SAP Oracle E-Business Suite Microsoft Dynamics Sage ERP

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Deployment Costs
For Fortune 500, software, hardware and consulting cost could easily exceed $100 million. For Large Companies $50 - $100 million. Midsize Companies could spend $10 - $20 million. Small Companies could spend $1-$10 million.

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Deployment Time & Risk

Full implementation of all modules could take years, which finally adds up to the original price. Unforeseen consequences could add up more time and hence more costs. The bigger the company the more risk of failure we have. ERP is not all time success. It requires huge

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What is SaaS, PaaS & IaaS

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SaaS
Software as a Service is a software delivery model with software and its associated data is hosted online and could be accessed with thin client like web browser. Pricing is usually like rent. Pay monthly/yearly for services. Upgrade to newer versions are usually automatic and free or incur minimal costs.

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Examples of SaaS
Basecamp Smartsheet Project Management Spring Loops Jump Charts 16 Bugs JIRA Invoicera

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PaaS
Platform as a Service provides all the configuration needed to run applications over the internet. Businesses could concentrate on innovation instead of worrying about configurations, deployment environment and/or optimization. Easily deploy applications, choose any OS and Application Configuration you like.

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Examples of PaaS
AppEngine Force.com Heroku phpFog Wave Maker

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IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service is hardware oriented model. Just work with any hardware you like, pay as you use. Dynamic Scaling. Its also referred to as Hardware as a Service.

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Examples of IaaS
Amazon EC2 Rackspace TATA Cloud

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What is Cloud Computing Then?

SaaS(Software) works on top of PaaS(Platform/OS) which works on IaaS(Hardware) makes a cloud based architecture to run online applications. It makes life easier by taking care of Hardware, Platform related issues/upgrades/scaling problems etc.

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How An ERP Fits in Cloud

Using open-source or smaller web based ERP solutions and getting them customized/hosted in Cloud. Using web based proprietary ERPs (Costing between $1000-$10,000 max and getting them hosted under cloud. Using it like SaaS (Many offerings next slide).

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Cloud ERPs Examples

Openbravo Net Suite Acumatica Apache OFBiz Adempiere Compiere

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Openbravo - Screens

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Openbravo - Screens

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Openbravo - Screens

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Openbravo - Screens

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OpenERP - Screens

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OpenERP - Screens

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What do we get?
Cost - No capital expenditure (XaaS). Pay only for what you use. Dynamic Scaling. Secure. Focus on Innovation and Business. Least risk involved. (If things dont work out well quit without fear of losing million of $s).

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What Future Holds

Microsoft Dynamics On April 11, 2011, Microsoft announced their next version of Microsoft Dynamics due in 2012 will be offered as Service just like MS Office 360. SAP has SAP One, so we have more options in here.

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Questions?