Monday, June 30, 2014

Reflection on the Junk Van Case




As a follow-up to consultants’ presentation on Tuesday night of the new proposed IT infrastructure, I have seen and analyzed all options for and against the adaption of PaaS. The advantage I see for adapting PaaS is that one can easily franchise the business as the PaaS can migrate data quickly. Cloud computing will bring Junk Van economies of costs and resources which ultimately can help guide company to have superior performance. In addition, PaaS can have multiple users concurrently using the same integrated application development environment, as well as giving the option to employees who are more ambitious can build their own unique applications.

As the company grows, I believe that possible drawback can be the transition from PaaS based system to an ERP. The issue is that PaaS is cloud-based computing platform while ERP is an infrastructure based and localized system. An ERP system is built around one central database and it requires dedicated database administrators. This increase comes from the fact than an ERP system is that the system is built around one central database maintenance and labor costs. Nonetheless, as the technology evolves this problem might be mitigated and not be as dire and problematic issue to overcome.

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