The surround strategy for legacy ERP is real. It’s been going on for several years, and if I was a legacy ERP vendor I would be concerned. The strategy refers to the idea of leaving legacy ERP in place while implementing cloud ERP to handle specialized parts of a business, like a region with currency conversion issues, subscriptions, or something like that. The advantage is that cloud systems can do some pre-processing and data consolidation that the legacy system then can integrate.
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Shrinking ERP to Grow It
Posted by: Denis March 31, 2015 11:50 AMThe surround strategy for legacy ERP is real. It’s been going on for several years, and if I was a legacy ERP vendor I would be concerned. The strategy refers to the idea of leaving legacy ERP in place while implementing cloud ERP to handle specialized parts of a business, like a region with currency conversion issues, subscriptions, or something like that. The advantage is that cloud systems can do some pre-processing and data consolidation that the legacy system then can integrate.