Benefits and Challenges Of Cloud Based ERP: Research Proposal 2022

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Benefits and Challenges Of Cloud Based ERP: Research Proposal
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Abstract
This proposal is centred around the various benefits that an organization can make
when they move their ERP based software to the infrastructure in the cloud. Despite the advent
of cloud computing, it is still a big issue for the management to make a decision to move to the
cloud, especially for a high profile software like ERP. This is due to issues like privacy and
implementation failure that has cripled companies. In this paper, we research on the key
benefits and issues that can arise when such a move is made. The first section deals with
literature review which attempt to dig into the current works of literature done on the subjects.
Section two highlights the methodology used in the research. The third section highlights some
key ethical consideration for the research and last section concludes this research.
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Introduction 4
Aim 5
Objectives 6
Literature Review 7
Methodology 10
Methods 11
Interviews 11
Focus Groups 11
Sampling 12
Data Analysis 12
Discussion and implications of research 13
Conclusion 14
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Introduction
Cloud computing is one of the emerging trends and buzzwords in this information age.
This paradigm shift encompasses the need to have software delivered to the end users via the
web whether the user is an individual and or an organization. Most resources located in the
cloud are virtualized and can be accessed by each and every user on demand on the pay as
you go model. The different cloud models can be largely classified into Infrastructure as Service
(IaaS), Platform as a Service(PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS). One of the objective of
most organizations is to have the data about the organization globally accessible to have much

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better global outreach and ensure employees can work anywhere anytime. Cloud computing
concept seems to be the ideal choice to achieve such strategic objectives .(Gupta, Qian,
Bhushan, & Luo, 2019)
ERP is a unique enterprise software that seeks to integrate all the core business
functions in the companies value chain in one monolithic and giant software hence brings about
automations and changing of business processes. Making the decision to implement an given
ERP solution is a crucial decision for most companies big or small since this is a one time huge
affair that has the potential to cripple a company financially especially if the implementation fails
and or some core modules are not integrated into the software. Again, it takes a lot of
manpower efforts and costs to configure, deploy and maintain an ERP for a company. The idea
that an entire ERP system can be outsourced is rather a new idea in most business domains.
With tough economic conditions, it is imperative for companies to adopt methods that are cost
effective at achieving the organizational strategic goals and achieving great customer
satisfaction (AL-Shboul, 2019). This is where the cloud model of ERP solution can be very
helpful to organizations where they have options to seek the service of an ERP cloud provider
and reap the huge benefits that accrue to the growing internet and mobile penetration globally.
Fundamentally, the cloud ERP differs in principle and design from the conventional ERP
solution as it is primarily developed from the start to be offered as a service that can be
accessed over the web. With this approach, there is a shift of the need for organizations to have
the required infrastructure to run an ERP to the external cloud provider that have specialized in
the cloud based services. The key advantage of this model is the abstraction of users from the
underlying system configurations and maintenance (Ghahremani, 2018).
Despite this huge potential of cloud ERP, there are some key barriers to their adoptions.
Some are organization specific whereas some are common to the organization. The common
issues include cost savings, scalability security, migration ease and the issues around licensing.
A very crucial issue is the information security of key data assets of a company. By design the