AcumaticaThe paper, according to company officials, describes "the benefits of maintaining the flexibility to switch between SaaS and on-premise when selecting ERP software applications.

The Ovum paper discusses what it characterizes as "nine questions that customers need to answer before deciding between on-premise and SaaS" products, including such issues as regulatory compliance, security, customization, and IT budgets.  , a vendor of Web-based accounting, ERP, and CRM software, has announced that it has been recognized among service providers offering flexible enterprise resource planning products in an Ovum (News - Alert) report titled “Nine questions to ask about SaaS.” 

The paper also describes how external factors such as mergers and the economic climate can influence a company’s ERP purchasing decision, as well as "the need to switch between on-premise and SaaS (News - Alert)."

“ERP requirements can change quickly and frequently,” warns Warren Wilson, Ovum Senior Analyst and co-author of the report, adding that customers with changing requirements "should purchase a product that provides the flexibility to move between an on-premise deployment, a hosted deployment and a SaaS implementation.”

The Acumatica offering develops an integrated set of Web-based accounting, ERP, and CRM software that can be deployed on premise, hosted at a data center, or run on a cloud computing platform, company officials say, for mid-sized businesses to "access their applications and documents from anywhere using any popular Web browser."

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