I'm pretty sure that there are companies that can justify remoting their ERP otherwise there wouldn't be so many that do it. I just have seen and heard too many horror stories to make it a regular recommendation for my clients. No offense to the marketing people (I am one so I can say this), sometimes the sizzle is far better than the steak.
It sounds like you have your hands full as well as a pretty good idea of the value of the external tools you've developed in-house to support the base product. Just don't let anyone else undervalue any of those external tools! I'll love to hear more as you guys progress through this and in particular some of the work arounds you end up doing to replace the custom tools you've built. I think it would a fascinating thread. Also, I'm sure everyone in the group is willing to try to assist if you need help or to vent! Paul H. Tarver -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2018 3:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SPAM-LOW] Re: [NF] Let the meetings BEGIN. That is why we are actively looking at what we get and what we lose if we go this route. Our ERP loves the fact that we run on razor blades for them all the F'n time and they charge us less for doing all their dirty work. I have a 4-year-old ERP system on that list. :( For us to keep the latest version of the ERP is important. It has been talk of the department for the last 7 years I have been working here. In this case of it being on their HW, they have updates happening monthly. AWS is the environment. On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 9:30 AM, Paul H. Tarver <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
