There have been more than one of my clients who make the move to the cloud

only to find that key functionality that is required for their business to

function properly is lost. This might be due to loss of direct access to

their data, or worse, the cloud version of the ERP isn't nearly as complete

or mature as the self-hosted product. Either way, it costs way more than

just time and money. Sanity and common sense are often victims as well.

No one has ever been able to satifactorily explain to me why remote hosting

your data on a server you do not control, in a place where you do not have

physical access, managed by people you did not hire, connected via a service

provided by a third party provider with crappy customer service and paid for

on a monthly fee basis was EVER a good idea for ANY business regardless of

the "benefits".

Seems to me, it's like putting your data into a nursing home, trusting the

staff to feed and care for your data properly and hoping they keep your data

in good shape so you can visit it once in a while.

Paul H. Tarver

-----Original Message-----

From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Stephen

Russell

Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:53 PM

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Subject: [NF] Let the meetings BEGIN.

Our ERP vendor wants us to jump into the cloud in a multi-tenant data

environment.

Sucks for us having written many applications that read that data and

present it to users to get things done that the ERP doesn't do today.

Apply monthly price updates on items due to what the contract has for that

customer. We then write those updates back to the ERP as well as send out

a notification letter to every customer about price updates.

When your data is in THIS cloud you give up the right to query it. Do they

give access to APIs to pull what we need? Well they will think about that

is what I thought I just heard.

Happy Happy Joy Joy it looks like the next 2 quarters are going to be

learning how to waste time on phone calls.

--

Stephen Russell

Sr. Analyst

Ring Container Technology

Oakland TN

901.246-0159 cell

--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---

multipart/alternative

text/plain (text body -- kept)

text/html

---

[excessive quoting removed by server]

_______________________________________________

Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox

OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech

Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox

This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/019701d3f36b$d40f9e80$7c2edb80$@tpcqpc.com

** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.