Over the last 10 years, I have repeatedly asked large company CIOs about what systems were not likely to go SaaS or be put into the public cloud. If there was consistency, it was that their company crown jewels, ERP, would not move into the cloud. While cloud ERP clearly took hold within the mid-market, large legacy companies largely just said no.
Having said this, things have started to change so I have asked CIOs the question again—specifically, those in the weekly #CIOChat Twitter chat session. This time I asked for their perspective on migrating ERP to the cloud. CIOs interestingly started the conversation by first sharing their battle scars. They said that most ERP projects historically underestimated the time and effort required. They said, in particular, that bad processes, poor governance, and an inattention to organizational change management plagued many on-premises ERP implementations.
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Source: IT Strategy