What Is Cloud-Based ERP?

Business growth is cause for celebration. But as the owner of a small to midsized business (SMB), you’ll experience growing pains along with victories.

Whether your business is expanding through new locations, additional warehouses, new products and services, eCommerce, or more staff, there suddenly aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done.

One of the most common challenges growing businesses face is hitting a wall with entry-level software.

Small business accounting applications can’t support meaningful growth, streamline operations, or provide real-time data to help you make smart decisions. Spreadsheets become dreaded workarounds that lead to finger-cramping data manipulation, expensive mistakes, and stale data. And without integration with your other critical business applications, you’re entering identical information in multiple places.

If your business’s growth is outpacing your software, look closely at cloud-based ERP.

What Is ERP?

ERP stands for enterprise resource planning. An ERP solution brings every aspect of your business—including accounting and finance, customer relationship management (CRM), inventory, reporting, eCommerce, supply chain, and projects —together one one platform.

ERP solutions enable you to share information across all business departments and with your vendors and customers. From workers in your warehouse to the executive team, an ERP solution provides complete visibility into your operations by centralizing your databases into a single location.

What Is Cloud-Based ERP?

While the cloud may seem abstract, you use it every day when you search on Google or order from Amazon. Cloud ERP is an ERP solution that runs in cloud data centers accessible over the internet by any user with permission. Some ERP solutions give customers a choice of system deployment: 100% cloud-hosted or hybrid cloud, which is partially cloud-hosted and partially on-premises.

Is the Cloud Secure?

Yes. There hasn’t been a publicly reported major cloud infrastructure breach since 2010. Cloud providers' protections rival those of the world’s largest enterprise data centers. Recent studies prove security is one of the top reasons to move to the cloud.

What Are the Benefits of Cloud-Based ERP?

The cloud changes everything—gone are the expensive, risky investments in outdated software, on-premises servers, and IT staff. With the right cloud-based ERP solution, all you need is an internet connection and a web browser.

Cloud technology creates a more agile and cost-effective operational function by minimizing the need for hardware and storage and providing more scalable and easily automated processes. The cloud also gives you secure access to your data anytime, anywhere, on any device.

What's an Example of an Affordable Cloud-Based ERP Solution?

SAP Business One  is one of the world’s leading cloud ERP solutions for growing businesses. Scalable and powerful, it's an all-in-one solution that provides everything you need — from financials and accounting to customer relationships, purchasing and inventory, and reporting. 

And with the help of Vision33, an SAP Business One Premier Partner, you'll be able to integrate, customize, and get maximum value from your cloud ERP investment.

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