To Cloud or Not to Cloud

Organizations are increasingly embracing Infor’s multi-tenant cloud solutions. Join Richard Stout and Keith Wayland, as they weigh the advantages and disadvantages of embracing Infor’s Cloud offerings including reduced Total Cost of Ownership, ODBC restrictions, giving up the sovereignty of root access, and hitching your organization to a technology infrastructure (Infor + AWS) that is built for the future.

Speaker 1:

Here we have our, To Cloud or Not to Cloud webinars. So without further ado, I’d like to present Mr. Richard Stout and Mr. Keith Wayland.

Mr. Richard Stout:

Right.

Mr. Keith Wayland:

Thank you.

Mr. Richard Stout:

Thank you. To cloud or not to cloud?

Mr. Keith Wayland:

That is the question.

Mr. Richard Stout:

That is the question. Or some might ask to Cloud now…

Mr. Keith Wayland:

or later?

Mr. Richard Stout:

Or later?

Mr. Keith Wayland:

There you go.

Mr. Richard Stout:

So that’s what we’ll be addressing in today’s penultimate webinar of our first week of the 2018 winter webinar series. We are RPI consultants. We are a dedicated team. We have expertise across all functional areas of Infor CloudSuite Financials and Supply Management. And Infor CloudSuite HCM and we have a really strong technology practice.

Mr. Keith Wayland:

So our agenda for today, we’re going to talk about what some of the drivers are for the increasing trend of folks migrating to the Cloud. And also what some of the barriers are. We’re going to talk about how the roles of the vendor and customer shift a little bit when you do this cloud migration. We’re going to talk about some of the differences in integrating with a multi-tenant environment versus an on-premise solution. And we’re going to talk about the overall direction of Cloud and ultimately answer whether it’s nobler in the mind to SAS, to slinging your hours on a multi-tenant or to take arms with on-premise solutions and by doing so to license perpetually.

Mr. Richard Stout:

Unseen.

Mr. Keith Wayland:

So a one quick thing here, is that for purposes of today’s presentation, we are talking specifically about Infor CloudSuite and we mean Infor CloudSuite ACM and Infor CloudSuite FSM.

Mr. Richard Stout:

Right.

Mr. Keith Wayland:

We also refer to often as version 11, the next generation of Lawson Software and CloudSuite. It turns out can be replayed in many ways, including on-premise in case you didn’t know. And here we’re looking at the pros and cons of moving to CloudSuite in a multi-tenant environment, which we will dive into. So with that, I will ask my colleague here, Mr. Stout, why do people look at moving to the Cloud?

Mr. Richard Stout:

Why do people look at moving to the cloud? Well, there are a number of good reasons. I think the number one reason is to minimize the responsibility and cost of running a lot of servers on premise, right? And that’s only becoming more and more of a reason as software becomes more complex and requires a wider variety of resources to deliver, right? I mean, think about, moving from Lawson nine to Lawson 10, a lot of customers doubled or even tripled the number of servers that make up their Lawson environments, full CloudSuite solution can take even more. And our clients have had a lot of experience, maintain those systems and gone through a lot of updates that, technology driven updates, hardware that needs to be replaced, operating systems that need to be upgraded. And they’ve put a lot of time and effort into keeping software current safe, highly available disaster recovery systems and fault tolerant and keeping those systems secure. And we have a lot of clients to understand that there are other ways that they could use their time and resources that might be more beneficial to their organization rather than…

Mr. Keith Wayland:

Disaster recovery is often a conversation that we have with our customers. And some are very forward-thinking, but spent a lot of money and effort in truly accomplishing that. And so