Tuesday, December 08, 2009

End of on Premise is near

Vinnie in his trademark style says that -- "If you add up all the systems integration, hosting, upgrade and application/basis management costs around SAP in the last 25 years – that done by its partners or its customer staff, I estimate it has been over $ 2 trillion in costs"

Wow.. that's a huge dollar number..

I have always maintained that on premise is getting challenged severly with customers demanding quicker upgrades & implementations, lower maintenance of hardware & software - leading to lower TCO's. SaaS based ERP promises all this.. there is a definite shift towards these models as customers ask & evaluate these vis-a-vis traditional ERP.

Interesting times ahead.

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