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Once a major headache for organisations, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are now becoming easier to migrate to the cloud, according to a new study from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).<\/p>\n
The findings, which appear in the research firm’s latest report, titled ‘The Impact of Cloud on ERP’, which surveyed almost 200 enterprise-level C-suite executives. Two thirds (64%) of organisations polled are either planning or in the middle of an ERP cloud migration initiative, while the vast majority (87%) of organisations who plan to use ERP are also looking to the cloud for other projects.<\/p>\n
There is no doubt – if any existed previously – about how important ERP remains to large organisations. 87% of those polled said it was either ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ important to their business.<\/p>\n
When it came to specific vendors, SAP was top of the shop, cited by 52% of respondents, ahead of Oracle (35%). This makes for interesting if not overly surprising reading. As regular readers of this publication will be aware, Oracle<\/a> and SAP<\/a> have committed huge resources to moving their legacy software contracts over to more quickly recurring cloudy ones.<\/p>\n This note shows the interest on both sides. Yet are SAP and Oracle convincing customers to use them to move over? Yes and no; while AWS (28%) and Azure (25%) remain the most popular cloud providers for data migration, SAP (13.5%) and Oracle (8%), the former in particular, have respectable figures compared with their overall cloud industry market share.<\/p>\n Organisations want to make the most of their ERP and they see being cloud-based as the key; yet concerns naturally remain. Companies are worried most about the moving of sensitive data (64%), as well as security (59%), compliance (54%) and disruption of business operations (46%). The benefits, however, outweigh the issues; security, cited by almost half of those polled as a boon, can be patched and updated easily by the provider, while scalability with new technologies (65%) and lower capex and opex (61%) were also seen as vital.<\/p>\n When it came to assessing security pre- and post-migration, however, the mood was one of caution and scepticism. One in three (34%) said there was a ‘slight’ risk increase, while 19% said the risk would be ‘significant’. 30% anticipated little change.<\/p>\n Writing for this publication in August, Louis Columbus noted how leading organisations were taking this a stage further, by baking machine learning and artificial intelligence into their ERP systems<\/a> for greater insight. Taking manufacturing as its key example, through this integration machine-level data can be analysed, virtual agents can pick across each part of the process, and product quality can be improved.<\/p>\n “Legacy ERP systems were purpose-built to excel at production consistency first at the expense of flexibility and responsiveness to customers’ changing requirements,” Columbus wrote. “By taking a business case-based approach to integrating AI and machine learning into their platforms, cloud ERP providers can fill the gap legacy ERP systems can’t.”<\/p>\n “In any cloud migration, regardless of the provider, security must be implemented from the start and implemented in phases throughout the project,” said Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, chair of the CSA ERP Security Working Group. “Organisations are concerned about moving sensitive data across environments, then addressing the security and compliance implications that come of that migration.<\/p>\n “Our studies have found that implementing security in each phase of the migration could save customers over five times of their implementation costs.”<\/p>\n You can read the full report here (pdf, email required).<\/a><\/p>\n Once a major headache for organisations, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are now becoming easier to migrate to the cloud, according to a new study from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).![\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cyber-security-world-series-1.png\"](\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cyber-security-world-series-1.png\")
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