There have been more than one of my clients who make the move to the cloud only to find that key functionality that is required for their business to function properly is lost. This might be due to loss of direct access to their data, or worse, the cloud version of the ERP isn't nearly as complete or mature as the self-hosted product. Either way, it costs way more than just time and money. Sanity and common sense are often victims as well.
No one has ever been able to satifactorily explain to me why remote hosting your data on a server you do not control, in a place where you do not have physical access, managed by people you did not hire, connected via a service provided by a third party provider with crappy customer service and paid for on a monthly fee basis was EVER a good idea for ANY business regardless of the "benefits". Seems to me, it's like putting your data into a nursing home, trusting the staff to feed and care for your data properly and hoping they keep your data in good shape so you can visit it once in a while. Paul H. Tarver -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NF] Let the meetings BEGIN. Our ERP vendor wants us to jump into the cloud in a multi-tenant data environment. Sucks for us having written many applications that read that data and present it to users to get things done that the ERP doesn't do today. Apply monthly price updates on items due to what the contract has for that customer. We then write those updates back to the ERP as well as send out a notification letter to every customer about price updates. When your data is in THIS cloud you give up the right to query it. Do they give access to APIs to pull what we need? Well they will think about that is what I thought I just heard. Happy Happy Joy Joy it looks like the next 2 quarters are going to be learning how to waste time on phone calls. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
