Why you should move digital products to the cloud?
If your company is currently facing the choice - whether to move your current ERP software to the cloud or stay with the server-based option, it's worth starting by analyzing the basic costs associated with both solutions
Hardware
Having ERP software in a local version, the license holder incurs high costs associated with maintaining the IT infrastructure at an appropriate level. We’re talking about the cost of replacing physical servers, network computers, operating systems, and databases. In this scenario, one must also take into account the cost of underutilization of the available disk space, which will be mentioned in the section on scalability.
The purchase of a cloud license allows its owner to “shift” the costs of IT infrastructure maintenance to the cloud environment provider. This means clear financial savings.
Scalability
Another aspect of having an ERP system on your own servers is the difficulty in achieving the so-called disk resource optimization in your IT infrastructure. In practice, purchased processors are either overloaded or used unsatisfactorily.
Using Microsoft’s cloud solutions opens up the possibility of flexible management of the amount of processor and disk space, depending on the reported needs.
System upgrades
With the upgrade to the latest versions of Business Central 365 in the cloud, the way the system is updated is changing.
Unlike the desktop version, updates and patches in the cloud version are part of a continuous update cycle that does not require the tedious work of an experienced programmer on the partner side for several days.
In conclusion, choosing the cloud version of the software deprives us of the need to incur periodic update costs, which also become the domain of the cloud solution provider.
IT team costs
As shown in the preceding paragraphs, modern cloud solutions are characterized by a significantly smaller scope of support from IT administrators as well as programmers for ongoing maintenance of servers or system updates.
A smaller scope of required support from IT specialists and administrators translates in a straight line into lower maintenance costs of the internal IT department.
