The world is going cloud with the business of every scope and scale adopting it owing to the numerous benefits it has to offer in the long run. Hence, businesses that had the traditional IT infrastructure system in place have come to the realization that to survive the cutthroat competition, they have to switch to the cloud.
But, what is cloud integration?
It is the method of connecting different cloud-based systems, tools, technologies, and models into one in order to leverage from their benefit of coming as a whole.
How can cloud integration benefit your manufacturing unit?
- Enhanced business performance
- Easy access, management of the data
- Better communication between employees and the customers. Thus, increased productivity
- Automatic implementation of tasks anytime and anywhere. Thus, no longer relying on in-house servers
- Provides back up, secure storage. Therefore, security and safety is ensured
- It ensures system reliability
- Seamless and immediate access to the latest products
- Significant cost reduction
- Ease of scalability- increase or decrease resources as and when required
But the cloud-based application is not without its share of challenges such as:
- You are giving a portion of control to the third party operating the cloud
- With more and more application added to the cloud environment, the infrastructure becomes complex
- A cloud is just as vulnerable as an IT infrastructure.
- The ease of use might overlook governance and compliance.
In order to ensure seamless cloud-based implementation, it is important that there is a high level of multi-layer security and integration system in place. End-to-end integration should be carefully built and managed to keep all the consideration and security protocols in mind.
If you are planning to implement a cloud-based solution, reach out to the cloud experts at Tayana for proper guidance that will help you make a well-informed decision.
Vijay comes with a vast experience in ERP and enterprise solutions space with about 20 years of experience in various packaged application like Acumatica, SAP, Orion, Salesforce.com, SugarCRM and, SalesLogix.