Supply chain organizations face enormous challenges to become more nimble while offering greater transparency and cost efficiency in business processes and the way they acquire and use IT tools. The cloud is proving to be a capable “partner” in meeting these challenges. Yet, one of the persistent views from end users is the functionality “gap” between on-premise applications and cloud applications in which the latter constitutes essentially a “lite” version of the former.
While that may have been true in the past, and may still be true in the case of certain vendors, the reality is that cloud applications no longer lag behind their on-premise versions. This month’s IDC Manufacturing Insights Market Spotlight Demystifying the Cloud: Considerations for Use of Cloud Applications, written by Simon Ellis, Vice President Supply Chain Strategies, IDC Manufacturing Insights, examines the trade-offs between cloud and on-premise applications and how they impact companies considering the use of or implementing cloud resources within their supply chain.
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