No Shit Sherlock
At last something sensible to come out of Gartner
Cloud is not a nirvana solution to anything not only ERP.
I know that this will anger the Cloud Fanbois but it is not. Once you see through the sales mist and rain there is nothing there. No substance at all. If you bet your business on all things cloud then prepare yourself for a lot of pain. Ok, a different set of pain from before but still a lot of pain.
No longer do you have an IT department to kick when the Server goes down. Instead you have a person somewhere in the world on the end of a phone (if you are lucky) who does not know your business and frankly does not care. All they want to do is get you off the phone ASAP then they can tick the 'call complete NFA' box on their tracking system.
Be gone Cloud. The world will be a better place without the hype.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
