Anyone who is interested in the current ERP market knows that there is no way around offers from the data cloud. Of course, this also applies to the market leader. The SAP Cloud offering is becoming ever larger and more complete. There is also a lot on offer for SMEs that can be accessed via the network. However, the nature of SMEs is very diverse and requires a different SAP Cloud platform.
SAP Cloud offering for SMEs
Now, the terms relating to the data cloud are not protected. An SAP cloud platform can therefore also be anything. If you focus on the offering for SMEs, you will of course find SAP Business ByDesignwhich is a purebred Software as a Service (SaaS) represents. It lives from the high functionality of a solution provided by SAP. And as such, this rental software is also based on a high level of standardisation. SAP Business ByDesign consistently runs on SAP servers and can only be obtained from there.
The situation is different with regard to the offer for SAP Business One (B1) from the cloud. SAP creates the basis with the rental tariffs for SAP B1. In other words, you can rent the ERP solution and additional components such as the Cloud Control Center for SAP Business One created. After that, things get colourful: SAP leaves it up to the customer to decide which infrastructure the on-demand software runs on. Consequently, all hyperscalers now offer a service in conjunction with SAP Business One. So you can directly access the pages of Amazon AWSMicrosoft Azure or Google, configure your SAP Business One environment and off you go.
Difficult entry and transition to cloud platforms
The advantages of cloud offerings have often been described and seem to be well known. You save costs and effort for hardware and its maintenance in your own company and do not need expensive and increasingly rare specialised personnel to maintain the IT landscape.
In addition, the Topic Security to become. After all, it is becoming increasingly difficult for SMEs in particular to defend themselves against all the dangers posed by attackers from the Internet. Especially when complex business software such as ERP systems SaaS, there is also the promise and expectation that the maintenance of this software will be carried out silently in the background.
So much for the ideal world, which in reality is often a little more diverse and less rosy for SMEs. Trying to work out what costs are hidden behind the hyperscalers' offerings can be slightly frustrating. Once you have struggled through a configuration that actually requires expert knowledge, a price shock quickly sets in. Yes, renting is always more expensive than buying, but so much more expensive. Particularly high availability or even High availability Google and Co. pay handsomely for this.
Anything but standard
Then it's better to go straight to SAP Business ByDesign to get everything from a single source. Yes, if you are familiar with the postulate of high Standardisation can make friends with. But if there is a reason for the worldwide success with over 70,000 installations of SAP Business One, then it is the high flexibility, customisability, over 600 add-ons and open world of integration of additional applications. SAP Business One has thus developed into a platform in its own right. Moving this platform with all its possibilities into the cloud is a completely different task than "just" providing ERP software there. In view of the advancing digitalization and thus ever-increasing complexity, this is no longer an option for many companies.
The special SAP Cloud serviced by specialists
Now you could argue that if you want to have such a high degree of flexibility away from the standard, it is better to do it on your own servers and then have to do without the advantages of the cloud. Or you could try to retain the benefits of SAP Business One and combine them with a service that provides many of the advantages of a cloud solution. One such solution was launched a few years ago by experienced SAP Business One consultants. Cloudiax AG is probably one of the very few cloud providers to focus solely on a specific type of customer: On SAP Business One users and almost everything that has to do with it. Cloudiax provides an SAP Cloud platform and infrastructure. This includes the databases, i.e. Microsoft SQL or SAP HANA. It is therefore a kind of PaaS (Platform as a Service) . SAP Business One, licensed from the SAP partner, is then installed on it. Many additional services can be rented on top of this, as well as additional application servers for third-party software and in-house development. In this way, a company can move its entire business IT to the cloud, making it more than just an SAP cloud.
The Full Service Package
The focus on and years of experience with SAP Business One from Cloudiax pays off for the customer. They are on a highly secure, highly available platform that is administered 24/7 by experts. We round off the package with the SAP/Cloudiax partner (such as Versino Projects), who works closely with us to take care of all aspects of software maintenance, consulting, expansion and maintenance. support takes care of it. This collaboration offers added value that is almost impossible for a medium-sized company to realise today. Obtaining, paying for and retaining the appropriate resources for an in-house IT department is nowadays only possible with great difficulty.
How to properly classify such a model within the cloud offerings is difficult. It's something between hybrid cloud, private cloud, and extending cloud services.
Be that as it may, it is a model that meets the often very specific requirements of SMEs with a suitable offering.
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