Abstract

The aim of this study is to weigh the pros and cons of SaaS ERP. The hype cycle surrounding Software as a Service (SaaS) has been escalating over the past several years, building to a crescendo entering 2012. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) holds a special place in the grand scheme of SaaS. While companies seemed willing enough to let the applications that surround and extend ERP reside in a SaaS environment, they were less willing to place their systems of record in a cloud they did not specifically own or control. The objective of this study is to prove that today the trend is changing and the advantages of ERP as SaaS appears to be winning.

Keywords:

Cloud computing, ERP, SaaS, SaaS testing,

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