Implementation of Cloud Based ERP Systems: ITECH5402 Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of cloud-based ERP systems, addressing their implementation, architecture, and various service models, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. It explores the working principles of cloud computing and its application in ERP environments. The report highlights the benefits of cloud ERP, such as improved performance, reduced costs, enhanced security, and real-time analytics, while also acknowledging potential drawbacks like limited customization. It incorporates reviews of relevant articles and concludes with an analysis of the overall impact of cloud computing on ERP systems, offering valuable insights for businesses considering cloud-based ERP solutions. The report includes a case study and references to support the analysis.

Cloud Based ERP Systems
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Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Cloud computing
• ERP System
• Working of Cloud computing
• Types of Cloud Computing
• Types of Cloud Service
• IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
• PaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
• SaaS (Software as a Service)
• Virtualization
• Hypervisor
• Importance of Cloud ERP
• Benefits of Cloud Computing
• Review of Articles
• Drawbacks of Cloud Computing
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction (Implementation of Cloud
Based ERP System)
• Cloud ERP can be sated as a software as
a Service (SaaS) that allows the user to
easily have an access to ERP software
over internet.
• Cloud based ERP aim in lowering cost
because of computing used in purchase of
outright

Cloud Computing
• Cloud computing is a well known computation which require
variety of computation service.
• Various kinds of companies like Amazon, Google, Sales and
Microsoft assure at present are providing cloud services.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) System
• ERP is known to be a business process software
which allows organization to make use of system
of integrate application
• It is used for managing business and other
automate process of back office which are in
related to the given technology and other related
services.

Working of Cloud Computing
• Cloud computing is not a technology
but an approach which can be used for
tackling the given server by the help of
communication network known as
server.
• Cloud computing is well known
technology which requires variety of
computers.

Types of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing mainly four kind of cloud models that
are
• Public Cloud
• Private Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud
• Community Cloud.

Types of Cloud Services
• There are mainly three types of cloud
computing model
• IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service)
• PaaS(Platform as a Service)
• SaaS(Software as a Service)

IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service)
• IaaS stands for Infrastructure as a
Service is a model which deliver
computing services. It is known to be
an outsourcing of support to various
enterprise.
• IaaS provides certain number of
services like server, storage, data.

PaaS(Platform as a Service)
• Platform as a service is a well known
deployment and development model in
the cloud infrastructure.
• It aims in delivery a large number of
things which ranges from cloud based
application

SaaS(Software as a Service)
• SaaS is a well platform which allows various
users to easily connect and make of cloud based
application. Some common examples of SaaS
are email, office tools and lastly calendaring.
• SaaS aim to provide certain number of software
which can easily pay as per the purchase in the
cloud based provider.

Virtualization
• Virtualization can be easily stated as a
creation of some important resources
like OS, storage and network.
• The ultimate notion of virtualization is
to easily manage workload by easy
transformation of computing to a new
level.

Hypervisor
• Hypervisor can be easily stated as a virtualization
method which all different operating system to
easily run on host system.
• Guest OS easily shares the hardware which is
there in the host computer like the OS which
comes up for the processor.

Types of Hypervisor
There are manly two types of hypervisor that
is
• Type 1
• Type 2

Benefits of Cloud based ERP
The five major benefits of cloud computing are
• Improving the performance of ERP and keeping
with the pace.
• Decrease in the cost of operation
• Enhancement of security
• Analytics in real time
• UAT and API based beta testing in the cloud
platform

Review of Article 1
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is well known business
organization program which is considered to be a part of
composed procurement which is needed for storing and directing
data.
• Cloud based ERP is known to be providing benefits for little and
medium estimated organization.
• Some of the advantages of ERP system are quick implementation,
feature for accessibility, enhancement and integration of data and
lastly non-physical servers.

Review of Article 2
• ERP system can easily help the given enterprise to easily
share and transfer important data containing vital
information in various units which is both inside and
outside of the organization.
• ERP is known to be a key element of infrastructure which
tends to provide solution to business.
• ERP vendors like SAP and Oracle which is needed for
development in different given modules.

Review of Article 3
• Various kinds of ERP system are there in the industry like
cloud based ERP system.
• Cloud based ERP system are mainly accessed through web
browser in the internet.
• ERP system can easily spare organization which is known to
be a considerable amount of time and cash.

Review of Article 4
• Use of cloud provider, a firm can scale up their productivity
of business software as the business grow when a new
organization is added.
• Choosing the right ERP system can be challenging one for
any organization. Precision, technological improvement is
becoming a major factor in cloud technology.
• Security of data is known to be one of the biggest issue
relating to supply chain in the domain of cloud computing.

Drawbacks of Cloud based ERP
• Cloud based ERP comes up with various disadvantages like
• Limited customization
• Limited number of personal suite
• Consideration of cost

Conclusion
The above slides the fact can be stated that
this presentation is all about cloud based ERP
system. Implementation of ERP in the domain
of cloud computing has resulted in
overcoming certain number of issues. It has
also helped in gaining advantages and some
little disadvantage where mix of two things
can easily result in discussing time.

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