To back this up, the first two things that became 'commonly' hosted by third parties on publicly accessible (though locked down via authentication methods) were:
(In the US at least) 1) Payroll (as suggested by Fabrice - it doesn't get more 'private' than this. 2) CRM (there can be no other kind of data more sensitive to a company that a customer list) ADP and Salesforce.com (and competitors) have convinced the market that this is secure and have so far been able to protect the data. Ray. P.S. - what does this mean for your/our SAAS customers - everything they have is on a public website!! -----Original Message----- From: Openerp-community [mailto:openerp-community-bounces+rcarnes=ursainfosystems.com@lists.launch pad.net] On Behalf Of Fabrice Henrion Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 6:46 PM To: 'W. Martin Borgert' Cc: 'OpenERP Community' Subject: Re: [Openerp-community] Fwd: OpenERP CMS: How is server separation implemented? > From: W. Martin Borgert: > In an ERP you have much more data than only that. There is a lot of data that should never, ever be on a publically accessible server, such as employees contract data or their illness times. A public web shop should only have the necessary data on the server. This was probably true many years ago, but I can assure you that in a market like the USA and many others, the vast majority of SMBs are outsourcing their payroll to HR service providers like ADP, Trinet, and hundreds of others who take care of not only payroll but employment contracts, time off,... All these HR service providers provide a web application (ie. portal) for their customers to process all this, which is as a matter of fact sitting somewhere on a server that is accessible over the internet with just a login and password. In terms of private data, I don't think it gets more critical than payslips and employment contracts. But this accessibility is a necessity. It's just where the future of management software is headed. __ Fabrice Henrion _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
