demand and saving them from having to invest in hard- ware and software at the “high water mark.”
t Eliminating or reducing the direct and indirect costs of infrastructure, from server to database systems to the actual hardware and replacement cycle cost.
t Eliminating or reducing the hidden costs of maintaining the servers yourself.
t The benefit of the reduced deployment times (and corresponding improved ROI) that are typical for cloud deployments, as the necessary infrastructure is in place already. “The Software-as-a-Service [SaaS] cloud model takes the onus off of internal IT re- sources to manage the software and related technol- ogy infrastructure, and also offers additional benefits of expedited deployment, ease of upgrades, a lower total cost of ownership and improved cash flow via a subscription model, as well as the ability to leverage best practice security and data protection capabili- ties,” Palsule said.
Modern cloud-based ERP solutions can also assist manufacturers in their efforts to grow by streamlining system consolidation during mergers and acquisitions, he added, and providing an extensible technology footprint that can support global “land-and-expand” initiatives.
Integrating ERP with PLM
Most mid- to large-sized discrete and process manufac- turing organizations can speed product developments by either buying or integrating ERP with known PLM solutions, Ultra Consultants’ Trudell noted. “Half of the Tier I vendors have this as part of their offering with solutions that they own, and everyone else has a known integration,” Trudell said. “With Tier II vendors, about half of them have known integrations, and the other half do not. It is a more critical need with larger organizations.” The top tier of ERP vendors include SAP, Microsoft, Infor,
Epicor, IFS and Sage, all of which book $1 billion in revenues annually except for IFS, noted Trudell. “The key to this is
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