Cloud Based ERP and CRM Solutions: 5 Reasons Love is in the Air!

Why Are So Many Companies Switching to Cloud Based ERP and CRM Systems?  Is it Love?

When it comes to the daily interactions you have with your business management software and all technology you need to run your business, “Love” may not be the first feeling that always comes to mind.  Let’s face it, while we rely on technology a great deal, it sometimes leaves us feeling like a bad blind date when it comes to misguided expectations and value for time and money invested.  When you consider the growth of cloud based ERP and CRM solutions over the past 5 years, it’s not surprising that almost 60% of all U.S. organizations rely on some sort of cloud computing, according to Forbes. It’s forecasted that businesses will increase their investment on cloud solutions in 2015, according to an article referenced in Computerworld 2015 forecast. In fact, 52 percent of IT decision-makers at firms with more than 1,000 employees say they intend to allocate more investment in cloud computing. In fact, industry experts predict that in the future, nearly 90 percent of all new Internet and communications spending will be concentrated on cloud-based technology.

5 Reasons More Businesses are Feeling the Love with Cloud Based ERP and CRM Solutions:

1. Timing is Everything - In our experience in working wiht our customers, it's clear that even businesses that were cloud-resistant some years ago have now encompassed the cloud. For example, we at DSG discussed cloud solutions to a manufacturing firm a few years ago. We explained all the benefits of the cloud, but the firm wasn’t interested.  Something changed with their thinking a couple of years later and now this organization is enthusiastic to go with a cloud based ERP solution.  Upper management, once skeptical, now recognizes that cloud solutions are the way of the future. What is causing this shift in businesses turning more and more to cloud solutions?  5 Reasons Companies Fall in Love with Cloud Based ERP and CRM Solutions:
2. Increase Cost Savings:  Primarily, transferring to the cloud helps companies save money.  A great example of this is a cloud ERP solution like NetSuite or a cloud CRM solution like Salesforce. They have robust functionality at an affordable price and more and more companies are finally in a position to replace their outdated legacy systems like Oracle or SAP. As a result of moving to the cloud, businesses can decrease their total cost of ownership while advancing from continuous upgrades, easy, scalable access, and best-in-breed security, disaster recovery, and backup.
3. Reduce Expenses:  With the cloud, organizations are eliminating the high capital expenses that come with managing in-house solutions like Oracle, and they’re eliminating the stress and angst that may accompany each new upgrade. For example, a Microsoft GP upgrade may incorporate all-encompassing hands-on installation and customization period from your IT department. Cloud-based upgrades, on the other hand, occur automatically, and all your customizations transfer completed to the latest version
4. Get a Strategic Business Advantage:   Furthermore, the cloud supplies a tactical business advantage. Plainly, journeying to the cloud has the additional advantage of liberating IT resources. Educated and clever CEOs are questioning: Is IT a principal share of the company’s business? In other words, are disaster recovery, setting up databases, and sustaining your data storage essential to the organization’s offerings? Or, are they simply effects that have to transpire in the framework of building the fundamental product?
5. Reduce Cost of Managing IT Staff or IT Department: t turns out that IT is seldom a central chunk of a firm’s business. One of our customers, Slingshot Sports trade is designing, building, and selling state-of-the-art kiteboards, wakeboards, and stand-up paddleboards. As Slingshot puts it, “we always remember that it’s about the experience and the fun of the ride that matters most.” Data backup, security, and disaster recovery are not core business functions. A cloud solution allows Slingshot Sports to hone in on producing new merchandise and heightening sales instead of fretting about IT functionality. More and more, management and business owners are making the choice to outsource IT performance and embrace the opportunities of the cloud.
6. Increase Efficiency and Productivity:  Cloud solutions enable companies to run their systems more efficiently and productively. True cloud-built solutions (as opposed to legacy systems that now simply run their same old solutions in the cloud) offer modern functionality and better business agility based on today’s best practices. For instance, there are no old-fashioned sub-ledgers or batch posting with NetSuite. Instead, users are always accessing real-time data and they can do so from anywhere with an Internet connection. With up-to-the-minute data, you can respond quickly to shifting market demands.

We’ve acted as Cupid for hundreds of companies helping to turn their flirtation with the cloud into a lasting love affair. DSG provides more than implementation. We help businesses extract the maximum business value from their investment in ERP and SaaS purpose.

Let DSG match you up with the right solution for your business, and find out how good it feels to fall in love with the cloud.

About DSG: DSG delivers cloud accelerated business solutions based on leading ERP and CRM applications NetSuite and Salesforce™. With our deep business and technology expertise and the experience gained in hundreds of successful projects, DSG is acknowledged as one of the leading cloud business solutions providers by our major business partner, NetSuite, and by cloud media and analysts such as IDC and CRN. Since 2005, hundreds of companies from startups to the Fortune 500 have worked with DSG and our proven Realize, Optimize and Revitalize methodologies to implement tailored NetSuite and Salesforce™ solutions that, from day one, deliver value, insight and business acceleration.

Another version was posted on by Todd Fitzwater on DSG Solutions Blog on February 11, 2014,  Why Companies Love the Cloud
 
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