Cloud Based ERP Solution

This report depicts the importance and essential necessity of implementing cloud based ERP solution in any business organization. The cloud based ERP solution has come across a long direction not only in terms of increasing business effectiveness and commercial growth but also focusing on multiple business activities.

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1. Introduction
This report depicts the importance and essential necessity of implementing cloud based
ERP solution in any business organization. The cloud based ERP solution has come across a long
direction not only in terms of increasing business effectiveness and commercial growth but also
focusing on multiple business activities (Demi and Haddara 2018). The major sub types of the
innovation are elaborated in this report. Apart from that, the paper also demonstrates important
milestones associated to the cloud based ERP solution implementation plan.
The executives and project heads of all organizations are required to follow professional
project management tools and practices before implementing the cloud based ERP solution. In
order to gain long term and continuous business success innovation of ERP solution is very
helpful. The organizational business process will be accelerated through the implementation of
the cloud based ERP solution. It will provide a competitive edge to the business organizations. A
timetable and a cost chart for the innovation project are also illustrated in this report.
1.1 Major sub types of the innovation
Different types of ERP solution are available in the market and based on organizational
operation features and activities the suitable ERP solution needs to be chosen for the business
organization. The types of ERP solutions those are mainly implemented in the business
organizations are elaborated in the below section:
 Generalist ERP
 Open source ERP
 Vertical ERP

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 Small business ERP
1.2 Important milestones of the innovation
Milestone Duration Responsible person
Project initiation phase 12 days Project manager, finance manager, operational
manager and
Project planning phase 20 days Operation manager, system developer, designer,
Project execution phase 25 days System designer, developer, project manager,
business analyst
Project monitoring and
control phase
12 days Chief Information Security Manager, system tester
and project manager
Project closure phase 10 days Project manager
1.3 Affect of the innovation in organizations
Organizational innovation, its relationship and persistence along with innovative
technologies influence the performance of the business organization. Utilizing integrated
organizational level data set innovation can be obtained precisely (Fowley et al. 2017). The
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) serves different services in terms of customer web portal,
distribution, time and project, finance, manufacturing, purchasing, customer relationship
management and sales. The ERP system helps to improve the relationship between consumers
and service providers. The despondent consumers would swing in competition to help while
voicing the disappointment via different portal of social media (Meganathan and Jeyanthi 2016).
The ERP system offers high usefulness so that the key procedures can deliver high commercial

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success. The companies which provides innovative services are capable to offer up to date
demand forecasts to improve the announce capacities during expansion of the benefits and
making extra value of clients. The cloud based ERP solution gives data backup abilities that
means that if data is found to be lost from the server can be retrieved easily (Mezghani 2019). On
the other hand, the overall business and application efficiency gets improved with this
innovation. Apart from this, disaster recovery is the other profit that can be achieved with the
application of a cloud based ERP solution. The ERP solution use business data for improving
and strengthening the business security (Jain and Sharma 2016). It helps to make use of
community knowledge so that the company can stay on the top of the regulation. These
approaches give the employees much power to increase power so that revenue can be generated.
The business organizations that use ERP solution would be able to take better beneficial
decision. The style of security sense gets improved with regulatory compliance and general
accepted accounting principles. Moreover, it can be said that the challenges of ales, consumer
acquisition, revenue, manufacturing outputs and web traffic will be completely minimized.
Though, incorporation of real time KPI is the other needful approach that helps to improve the
organizational
1.3.1Example
Most of the large business organizations use cloud based ERP solution in these days to
improve the business effectiveness and competitive growth.
Amazon web service: The Company Amazon is a cloud vendor and also uses cloud
based ERP solution in their business to increase the sales and revenue rate. With the
implementation of ERP solution it has successfully improved their business efficiency

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(Deshmukh, Thampi and Kalamkar 2015). In fact the relationship between the consumers and
services providers has also been improved a lot with such design and development innovation.
IBM: IBM is the other MNC that uses cloud based ERP solution in their organization to
retain reliability, flexibility, security. They have been successfully able to store huge set of
information with high security. It implies that none of the users would be able to access
information from the server without proper permission. This is one of the most cost effective
solutions identified and used these days (Meganathan and Jeyanthi 2016). Management of the
information set will also become easier and time savings. The business operation and functional
management would also implement in a flawless manner. Complete customization will also
improve the reporting and planning approach. The system will offer collaboration and workflow
approach. The business organizations that use ERP solution develops the supply chain
management to facilitate the regulatory compliance.
2. Recommendations on future development of the innovation for
organization
For future development and innovative success some recommendations are also
elaborated:
Incorporating training and development program: The company owner should
incorporate timely training and development program for the working employees. It will help
them to become technically knowledgeable and skilled as well. On the other hand, disruptive,
application, product, marketing, integration and value engineering are the innovation types
regarding which the business organizations will be able to gain more knowledge.

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Encryption mechanism: In order to secure the information stored in the server proper
encryption mechanism should be incorporated (Nguyen and Luc 2018). It is expected that,
encryption mechanism will secure the information and none of the unwanted user would be able
to access any information without permission. The encrypted data cannot be decrypted without
proper access and presence of shared key.
Documentation of the requirements: At the project initiation phase, the project scope
should be designed and developed. The shared project scope needs to be followed and
maintained by all the business associates. These requirements should be documented in a
preliminary draft and must be approved by the project manager (Venkatraman and Fahd 2016).
The objectives that the head of the business organization requires to achieve must setup baseline
at the initiation phase. Strong project management prcatices, resource management plan and
stakeholder management plan needs to be incorporated by the business organization.
2.1 Timetable
The timetable that needs to be followed by the business associates and organizational
head while implementing innovation and cloud based ERP solution the timetable requires to be
followed is as follows:
2.2 Costs/charts
Task Name Duration Start Finish Resource Names Cost
Developing project schedule 79 days Tue
3/26/19
Fri
7/12/19 $16,880.00
Project initiation phase 12 days Tue
3/26/19
Wed
4/10/19 $2,560.00
Scope statement design 4 days Tue
3/26/19
Fri
3/29/19 Project manager $960.00
Feasibility study 4 days Mon
4/1/19
Thu
4/4/19 finance manager $704.00

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Detail innovation plan 4 days Fri 4/5/19 Wed
4/10/19 operation manager $896.00
Project planning phase 20 days Thu
4/11/19
Wed
5/8/19 $4,200.00
Outlining the ERP system
prototype 10 days Thu
4/11/19
Wed
4/24/19 operation manager $2,240.00
Selection of vendor 5 days Thu
4/25/19
Wed
5/1/19 system developer $760.00
Incorporating cloud
features to the ERP solution 5 days Thu
5/2/19
Wed
5/8/19 Project manager $1,200.00
Project execution phase 13 days Thu
5/9/19
Mon
5/27/19 $3,848.00
Defining the driving
expenses 5 days Thu
5/9/19
Wed
5/15/19
Chief Information
Security Manager $1,000.00
Identifying the value
conveyed 7 days Thu
5/16/19
Fri
5/24/19 operation manager $1,568.00
Access undertaking,
services and contracts 8 days Thu
5/16/19
Mon
5/27/19 system designer $1,280.00
Project Testing 25 days Mon
5/27/19
Fri
6/28/19 $4,080.00
Unit testing 10 days Mon
5/27/19 Fri 6/7/19 system tester $1,440.00
integrated testing 5 days Mon
6/10/19
Fri
6/14/19 Project manager $1,200.00
Acceptance testing 10 days Mon
6/17/19
Fri
6/28/19 system tester $1,440.00
Project closure phase 10 days Mon
7/1/19
Fri
7/12/19 $2,192.00
Stakeholder signoff 3 days Mon
7/1/19
Wed
7/3/19 Project manager $720.00
Submission of final project
draft 4 days Thu
7/4/19
Tue
7/9/19
Chief Information
Security Manager $800.00
Final design documentation 3 days Wed
7/10/19
Fri
7/12/19 operation manager $672.00
2.3 Conclusion
From the overall discussion it can be concluded that, innovation is referred to as a key for
commercial growth. As fast as the organizations will include new technical services that sooner
the company would be able to reach their preliminarily decided goals and objectives. This is the

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reason for which cloud has become one of the most preferred ERP solutions. Cloud based ERP
offers scalabilities, flexibilities, reliabilities to the innovations. The other features those are
offered by cloud based ERP solution include application resilience, disaster recovery and data
backup. The data server needs to store all needful information and should also secure those with
needful security mechanisms in terms of cryptography, application firewall and DMZ. Moreover,
it has been determined that managing innovations are mandatory to gain commercial success and
competitive advantages in the marketplace.

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Transcript
Enterprise Resource Planning software is combined of strategic as well as powerful
business process management tools those can be used for managing information inside the
business organization. With changing time period the numbers of information and clients and all
growing rapidly. In order to manage those information efficiently and professionally currently
most of the medium and large business organizations are focusing on implementing cloud based
ERP management system to deliver SCM and CRM functionalities to their employees, It will
also provide high level security to their consumer’s personnel and financial information. Each
organization today is operating in different ways and as a result these are facing major challenges
as well. In today’s business environment the level of competition are increasing day by day and
in order to compete rest of the similar industries these are focusing on cloud based ERP
implementation. The ERP system can integrate all facets of the enterprises into a comprehensive
ERP system can be accessed by every individual throughout entire business organization. The
business owners and leaders have responsibility to streamline and automate the business process
and ERP assists the organizations to meet the expectations. The employees and organizations
would become much successful and productive if they implement the cloud based ERP solution
in their business organization. Though, certain major challenges are associated to these systems
that are required to be mitigated with respective risk response strategies. The users should
provide in depth overview on the topic regarding ERP. In order to succeed in today’s enhancing
competitiveness as well as complex business environment the users should put system in
accurate place. It will help the users to automate, streamline and scale up the business process
towards implementation of the ERPS system. The ERP system which is installed locally on the

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hardware, server are all managed by the IT staffs. In order to manage proper interaction with
consumers and employees the ERP solution is very crucial. A cloud based ERP system can help
the users to collect as well as store data in the centralized server. It helps to keep all data highly
secured and protected from the external unwanted attackers. Global regulatory laws and
guidelines are needed to operate in the ERP compliance. In order to protect all information set
the ERP also offers real time data access and business visibilities. The evaluation, selection and
organizational decision are the other phases associated to ERP solution. It helps to make
appropriate assessment considering the criteria and schedule consultations. The companies
would be able to possess high Return on Investment (ROI) and measurable commercial revenue
with the implementation of an ERP management system. All the Key Performance Indicator
(KPI) can measure process details associated to the business organization.