November 20186 The rise of consumerism, mobility, and more importantly cloud has made enterprises rethink their ERP strategies. The rigid nature of volume-driven, enterprise wide ERP solution challenges the flexibility demand of today's enterprises. The cloud presents a more than viable solution, however the existing investments on ERPs and the security issues surrounding cloud is making enterprises apprehensive toward cloud based ERPs. Hybrid ERP solutions emerge as a promising option for businesses looking to revamp their ERP systems. The hybrid solutions coalesces cloud based tools with existing ERP solutions, ensuring budgetary considerations. Additionally, hybrid solutions allow organizations to scale their IT strategies to align with current and future customer-driven business models, and to cater to the mobility demands of consumers and employees. Adding to the enhanced collaboration, the advent of subscription based cloud solutions enable organizations, including SMBs, to overcome the recurrent expenses of installing and maintaining an in-house server based ERP application. However, making the choice from the elephantine amount of cloud-ERP purveyors is still a tedious task for organizations. On that note, we present to you this special edition on ERP. We are featuring some of the top ERP solutions and service providers. The chosen ones help their customers to optimize their technology investments and deploy new capabilities. Let us know your thoughts. Annie JohnsonManaging Editoreditor@apacciooutlook.comAnnie Johnson To subscribe to APACCIOOutlookVisit www.apacciooutlook.comArt & GraphicsAmelia StewartFlynn SmythToby LangtonSujay KManaging EditorAnnie JohnsonCopyright © 2018 ValleyMedia Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.NOVEMBER - 2018, Volume 04 SE 45 Published by ValleyMedia Inc.EditorialThe Modern ERP ApproachSenior WritersLane Adams Clara MathewRoyce D'Souza Vishnu SanthoshEditorialAlfred MardinLouis BeckerRachael ClarkRoy Chow*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staffEmailsales@apacciooutlook.comeditor@apacciooutlook.commarketing@apacciooutlook.comContact usPhone: 1 510.996.5168Fax: 510-894-8405
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