Deploying Low-Latency Applications in the Cloud

Cloud has become the preferred deployment option for most categories of enterprise systems. But conventional wisdom is that some systems that require low latency and a high degree of system availability, such as warehouse management systems (WMS) or manufacturing execution systems (MES), are best deployed on-premises.

The argument is that response time over the Internet is never as fast as over a local area network and that such systems cannot tolerate any level of unscheduled downtime inherent in using a cloud application. 

Nevertheless, cloud systems are invading even this category of software. Although still in the minority, there are some vendors providing such low-latency applications as a cloud service. 

One example is Plex Systems.  And, interestingly, it is not a new example. 

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Getting ERP Users to Upgrade—Cloud vs. Traditional Systems

One of the great challenges facing traditional ERP vendors is getting customers to keep up with the latest version. Cloud ERP systems are supposed to solve this problem, by making the vendor responsible for upgrades and keeping all customers on a single version.

However, sometimes, even SaaS providers need to make changes that are so significant and potentially disruptive that customers resist the change.

Read the rest of this post on the Strativa blog: Getting ERP Users to Upgrade—Cloud vs. Traditional Systems