Thanks to the development of the Internet and highly equipped server rooms designed to offer software in the cloud, we nowadays distinguish 3 models of software delivery:
On-premise – a model using its own infrastructure and purchased licences
and 3 models implemented using the cloud:
1.SaaS (Software as a Service), where access to software as a service is sold
2. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), where access to hardware and system infrastructure is sold, you need to additionally purchase software licenses
3.PaaS (Platform as a Service), where access to infrastructure is sold along with tools for building and developing software (an option more familiar to developers than to the end user of the software).
Nowadays, it is impossible to imagine an integrated system that would link all data and records present in a company without various forms of access to data, both in the sense of entering and sharing them. There is a need for access both in the form of desktop application on the positions inside the company or mobile application available on smartphones of sales representatives and service technicians or tablet application of warehouse or production employees.
Therefore, a good ERP system should have the possibility of hybrid configurations. It should have a central database and many forms of access. Both with a thick client that connects directly to the database and thin clients that do not require a fast connection.
Cloud, so the SaaS and IaaS models, will enable all necessary access variants. However, there are 2 myths that deny the use of cloud for ERP solutions:
- Data security.
Storing all company data (including financial data) somewhere on foreign servers is still under discussion. However, it should be remembered that cloud technologies can also be installed locally, so you can entrust the care of your data to one provider who will take responsibility for its security. - Customization of the company and development of ERP functionality.
The answer is Gardens-Software, which is the only manufacturer to provide an integrated development environment dedicated to on-premise as well as SaaS and IaaS models. Until now, the barrier to customize an ERP system available in the cloud was only technology and not, as many falsely claim, the very way of selling access to one program as a service. These are myths proclaimed by companies that build systems for companies in 2-tier architecture and do not have any modern development technologies. In the GardensERP CloudBasic system any and all modifications are made individually for the customer. This is only possible and simple if the service provider has an integrated development environment that ensures that the application objects are stored in a repository inside a client-specific database.