Cloud Based ERP System - Benefits, Scope and Limitations

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Cloud based ERP System
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Cloud computing:............................................................................................................................2
Cloud computing models:................................................................................................4
Cloud computing services:..............................................................................................4
ERP system:.....................................................................................................................................5
Cloud Base ERP:.............................................................................................................................6
Scope of Cloud ERP systems:.........................................................................................7
Benefits of Cloud Based ERP:.........................................................................................8
Cost:.............................................................................................................................8
Deployment at a rapid rate:..........................................................................................9
Scalability and Flexibility:...........................................................................................9
Cloud limitations:..........................................................................................................10
Availability and functionality is limited:...................................................................10
Reduced customization and Integration:...................................................................10
Size of Implementation:.............................................................................................10
Complexity of the systems:.......................................................................................11
Case study:.....................................................................................................................................11
References:....................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction:
The speed of changing in the global business in terms of the enterprise system is seen ti
be happening at a very fast speed. In addition to this different sectors are seen to requiring
specialized solutions as well. These type of efforts have been associated with overshadowing by
the fact that most of the economies are coming out of recession and the companies are being
associated with catching up if the growth curves (Muslmani et al., 2018). Industrial steps along
with being sophisticated are often associated with requiring huge amount of money as well as
effort. There always exists the need of improving the efficiency of the operations. The ERP or
the Enterprise Resource Planning platforms are seen to having a development for the purpose of
providing solutions for the emerging needs of the global creativity. The purpose of using ERP
has changed at a drastic rate in last few years and in present situation of the ERP this can be
applied by companies operation in any filed. For this reason the Cloud based ERP is seen to be
emerging as solution to the problems which are being faced by organizations (López & Ishizaka,
2017). The cloud based ERP deployment is easy and the control of this is entirely dependent
upon the support provided by vendors and for this reason it is very much simple to execute an
ERP to an organization as it is entirely dependent upon the internet.
Cloud computing:
Cloud computing is one of the emerging technology which is associated with entailing
various computers which are interconnected for the purpose of delivering computing services by
making use of the communication network like the internet (Elmonem, Nasr & Geith, 2016).
Many large organization existing in the market are associated with providing this kind of device
and this organizations includes Google, Amazon and many more. It is not possible to deem the
cloud computing technology as a new concept in terms of the Information Technology. However

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this is considered to be a more outstanding alternative related to data processing administration
authorities which are seen to have been existing years ago (Ganesh & Mehta, 2016). Cloud
computing is seen to be coming with numerous choices of specifications and is capable of
helping businesses of different sizes and for this reason it is also deemed as an economic
alternative for the data processing in businesses.
The advantages provided by cloud computing are numerous which is in turn responsible
for making cloud computing preferred by many businesses. Along with this the flexibility,
improved reliability along with the improved security, collaboration and huge storage space are
also responsible for making this concept preferred by many (Gupta et al., 2018). However along
with the advantages there also exists certain disadvantages as well some of which includes the
issues related to preservation of the confidentiality, integrity of the users data and many more.
Despite of the existence of various issues the usage of cloud computing is associated with
helping the organizations in cutting down of the IT cost along with helping in increasing the
business capabilities.
From this it can be sated that the cloud computing is the technology and an approach
which is associated with helping in handling of the forces of servers by means of separating the
single servers into numerous virtual machines (Das & Dayal, 2016). With the shifting of more IT
services to the cloud platforms, is associated with making more organizations considering if they
need to move to their online ERP systems to the clouds. despite of the fact that some of the
companies have been associated with successful shifting of the ERP systems to the clouds, there
still exists many other skeptical related to taking this particular step. The reason behind this is the
different factors which needs to be put into consideration before taking a certain decision for the
purpose of using the cloud based ERP systems (Nowak & Kurbel, 2016). Few factors is