///////////////////////////////////////////////////
MIGRATING ERP
TO THE CLOUD
With nearly 70% of organisations migrating their
solutions for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to
the cloud, Dave Ives, Digital Advisory Executive at
Altron Karabina, says that decision-makers need to
be cognisant of how to adapt their approach to this
mission-critical application.
T
hanks to the arrival of multi-
national data centres in the country,
more organisations are examining
ways to benefit from the cloud. This has
seen the cloud becoming standard business
practice in South Africa with companies no
longer able to ignore the advantages of
going this route.
But even so, this has yet to impact migrating
ERP to an online environment. Given that
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is only expected
to be available on the local Azure data
centres later this year, this has not hindered
a number of South African based companies
that have already deployed Dynamics 365
www.intelligentcio.com
for finance and operations; however, some
companies could be adopting a wait-and-
see approach. The business value in making
the move sooner rather than later cannot be
ignored with so much to be offered in the
standard solution.
Many customers have seen the challenge of
deploying ERP and requiring a burgeoning
server and application platform estate to
support a large ERP deployment.
‘Out-the-box’ cloud services provided by
companies such as Microsoft see them take
care of all the infrastructure requirements
when it comes to ERP, including
t cht lk
“
MANY
CUSTOMERS
HAVE SEEN THE
CHALLENGE OF
DEPLOYING ERP
AND REQUIRING
A BURGEONING
SERVER AND
APPLICATION
PLATFORM
ESTATE TO
SUPPORT A
LARGE ERP
DEPLOYMENT.
INTELLIGENTCIO
67