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ERP Systems in the Cloud
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Overview of the Topic.................................................................................................................2
Discussions about the purpose of the report................................................................................4
Comparison and contrast of different perspectives of the topic..................................................6
Advantages of Cloud based ERP system over “ON PREMISE” ERP system and the Hosted
ERP system..............................................................................................................................7
Associated Risks with the ERP systems..................................................................................9
Arguments supporting the purpose of the report.......................................................................10
Relevant business case studies illustrating the key points.........................................................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP has been used in organizations since the time the
advantages of the system have been known to the business organizations. It had been a one-step
solution for the business organizations in various industries to handle all the operations within
the business process. Ever since the ERP system has been implemented as a software system
solution it gained huge popularity since it has the potential to handle the generated data and
processing of information within the organization through the day to day activities (Ramasamy
and Periasamy 2017). Therefore, as far as industry and organizations are concerned, it can be
easily said that ERP is not a new concept for organisations however the cloud based ERP is
utilised by the organisation in the recent years for the benefits of having all the positive ideas of
ERP software implemented in the cloud. The companies are no longer susceptible to possess the
ERP software programs and having licence to various computers or hardware devices. This also
forms various advantages and disadvantages along with the utilisation of ERP systems within the
cloud environment. The utility of ERP in the cloud would be analysed in the following report.
This would be analysed through the entire report with an overview of the topic, discussions about
the entire purpose of the report and research comparison and contrast of the different
perspectives of the topic generally talking about the advantages and disadvantages of cloud
based ERP system and the relevant business case studies and their key points.
Overview of the Topic
ERP or enterprise resource planning was being utilised since a long time within business
environment. Although, it was not given lot of attention when ERP was being included in the
cloud environment, it was only until recently that people have discussed about the disadvantages
and advantages of ERP while its utilisation in cloud computing (Ramasamy and Singh 2017).

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There have been various perspective of this implementation of ERP within the cloud
environment and its analysis based on the traditional way in which year he was being
implemented in various organisations. In an enterprise resource planning, there were various
segments within the business organisation that utilised the programming part for the maximum
part of ERP suit composing the procurements for the association to use these composed
procurement data from time to time as well as direct them (Baskaran 2018). discomposed
procurement data was for the utilised for storing and directing within the business time period
and utilised in manufacturing, marketing and sales, product planning, and other departments
running within organisation. Since the time of its inception, business organisations have been
utilising ERP as a package to business software system in a milling efficient management of the
operations within the business organisation that generates day-to-day data and the effective
utilisation of the resources with total integrated solution by processing the information generated.
Cloud computing on the other hand is very different topic from ERP as a software system.
Cloud computing is another technology that is ever emerging in the technological area
right now and involves a lot of understanding related to the concept of the entire cloud based
system. It is the technology involving various computers to be connected for the delivery of
services through communication networks, like the internet (Haddara 2018). It is considered to
be a technology having much more exceptional and variant way of processing data
administration authorities coming with the facility of providing never ending storage space.
However, the storage space is not physical in nature. The entire system of ERP utilising cloud
based environment establishes the idea of having the software system and generating the data
within the cloud with no physical existence of the data. The information does generated would be
entirely dependent upon the cloud storage areas (Desai et al. 2018). Business organisations are