The Real Disconnect Fueling the “Cloud” Craze? It Has Little to Do with Costs and Much More to Do with IT

I spent a lot of time recently at the GP User Group Summit listening to users and trying to get a better understanding on a number of  topics. One topic that was particularly interesting to me was the idea of Dynamics GP in the Cloud.

For clarity, by "Cloud," I mean a hosted Dynamics GP solution where firms pay a monthly per user fee rather than buy the software up front . I was interested in what the demand was like for Cloud solutions and why.

On first glance there are a lot of factors working against cloud solutions for any accounting software. Specifically:

• Cloud solutions can't be capitalized like on-premise implementations.
• There are obvio...

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