Cloud, on-premise or mixed?

In the above video, Miles Harvey of Fitzroy discusses his company’s selection of IRIS Exchequer. He wanted a business partner capable of growing the business. He reports the finance function costs 0.45% of turnover. the industry average is 1%+. That’s a huge benefit.  Exchequer is an on-premise solution but provides real-time business information.

In this video, Andy Gaze director of Allparts talks about his company’s use of Pearl Software for integrated, in the cloud operations. He’s more than happy he made that choice, citing speed and flexibility as key attributes.

In this next video, Jayne King of Osteotec talks about integration between CRM and finance. Her company moved to Mamut One which offers an on-premise and services model.

So…does it make any difference whether your accounting operates in the cloud or on-premise? Customers are taking mixed views but above everything, they are looking for functional, integrated completeness along with clearly defined business value. How much the picture changes over the next year will be interesting to follow. What is clear from this small and admittedly unrepresentative sample is that when companies are looking for a change, Sage is losing out. That’s a common thread I see in the SME market.

Related articles by Zemanta

• Your Business Cloud – Holy Grail Anyone? (cloudave.com)
• Could SAP be right for you? (accmanpro.com)
• RightNow Harvard is getting it wrong. . . (texasstartupblog.com)