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Implement SAP Business One on Cloud to Reap Top Benefits

Shantha Kumari

Small and medium businesses almost entirely rely on SAP Business One for managing their business with greater clarity, including accounting & financials, sales, CRM, inventory, production, reporting, purchasing, and other operations on the cloud. Both Azure and Amazon Web Service supports this business solution.

As a certified partner of both Azure and Amazon, Sysfore can get you the best implementation of SAP B1. Check out our cloud offers on Sap Business One.

SAP B1 - Backbone of SMB and Enterprises

SAP Business One helps to have a centralized location for your company information for easy sharing between departments. This reduces the administrative costs and allows you to make informed and accurate business decisions. It allows you to streamline your end-to-end operations, gain instant access to complete information, and accelerate profitable growth.

Some of the features & benefits you can expect to see in the SAP Business One Cloud solution are:

  • Highly customizable – Since the key functions can be implemented according to your business needs, you can add additional functions as your business grows.
  • Lower administrative costs by minimizing training requirements.  It even includes hyperlinks to free on-line video training in context of the related screens
  • Lower TCO– The cloud platform enables businesses to quickly deploy SAP solutions and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of running SAP systems by up to 70%, compared to traditional on-premises infrastructure.
  • Focus on OPEX instead of CAPEX– Replace the fixed capital expense for IT hardware with variable operational expense.
  • Enterprise Search– Find any data instantly due to the centralized location for all your information.
  • Improved customer relationships– A prompt and efficient customer service with focus on customer satisfaction.
  • Industry specific solutions– It has one of the largest ecosystem, which supports functionalities across various industries. There is 3rd party support for their functionalities which is built on the open and flexible architecture.
  • Focus on your business and save time– The cloud environment allows you to concentrate on your business, while the service providers will handle the IT infrastructure, hardware and software requirements.
  • Increase your bottom line– The system is integrated across modules, it reduces redundant data entry, complex or manual reporting to combine data, errors and delays.

You can contact Sysfore for implementing SAP Business One Cloud hosting for your organization by mailing us  on info@sysfore.com or call us at +91-80-4110-5555 and our experts will contact you.

Is Azure Blockchain Cloud the future of Cloud Computing?

Shantha Kumari

Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) is the new and experimental cloud technology service which Microsoft Azure is offering for its Platform as a Service (PaaS) customers. It is trying to create a marketplace for the blockchain, the distributed ledger technology on which bitcoin is built. IBM is the other adopter of this new cloud service, through its Bluemix Cloud service.

Sysfore can give you all the facts about Bitcoin cloud technology. Before going into how Bitcoin cloud works, you need to understand what the Bitcoin technology is.

Bitcoin

 

What is a Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet. It is a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever. It is completely decentralized, with no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin. Due to this decentralized nature it is resistant to wild inflation and corrupt banks. You can be your own bank.

 

What is A Blockchain?

A Blockchain is a decentralized ledger (database of transactions) powering Bitcoin-like digital currencies. This ledger is public and duplicated across a “peer to peer network” while maintaining a coherent state (agreed upon by all participants) without requiring trust or a central authority. The inherent redundancy of duplicating the entire ledger on every node of the network removes the single point of failure common to traditional databases. Read more →

Cloud Backup or Cloud Disaster Recovery – What’s the difference?

Shantha Kumari

Cloud Data Backup is not Cloud Disaster Recovery. One particular misunderstanding among the customers is about cloud backup, storage and disaster recovery. Its mainly due to the misrepresentation by the cloud vendors, and lack of background information on their part.

Many organizations are considering cloud backup because it eliminates tape-based backup technology, automates backups, removes the human capital component and other services like off-site tape storage fees.

Get your facts clear about Cloud Backup, Cloud Storage and Disaster Recovery with a free consultation with Sysfore cloud experts.

Before discussing about the difference, here is the definition of Cloud Storage, Cloud Backup, and Disaster Recovery.

The Cloud Defined

In the beginning stages of disaster recovery planning, decision makers are often mistaken about what constitutes a disaster recovery plan. Many times they are misled by the idea that data backup is sufficient precaution in the event of a disaster.

While having a backup strategy is important, it is not the same as a disaster recovery strategy; rather, the beginning stages of establishing a proper DR plan. A backup is a copy of your data; a disaster recovery plan is insurance that guarantees its recovery.

However, there is a misconception that cloud backups can improve an organization’s recovery time simply because it is a disk-based backup. In reality, it may take you longer than tape to restore.

There are three easy questions to ask to determine if a cloud backup service can work as part of your disaster recovery strategy:

  • Can you get your data from where it is in the cloud to where it needs to be for restoration and recovery and still meet your recovery time objective (RTO) requirements?
  • Can you perform your disaster recovery using additional cloud services from the same provider thus the data is where it needs to be for restoration and recovery of your critical systems in the cloud?
  • Can you regularly test either of these two scenarios (or both) as a part of your contract before locking in a long-term contract with the cloud backup provider you are considering.

So, what makes backups and disaster recovery different?

  1. Data retention requirements

Backups are typically performed on a daily basis to ensure necessary data retention at a single location, for the single purpose of copying data.

Disaster recovery requires the determination of the RTO (recovery time objective) in order to designate the maximum amount of time the business can be without IT systems post-disaster. Traditionally, the ability to meet a given RTO requires at least one duplicate of the IT infrastructure in a secondary location to allow for replication between the production and DR site.

  1. Recovery ability

Disaster recovery is the process of failing over your primary environment to an alternate environment that is capable of sustaining your business continuity.

Backups are useful for immediate access in the event of the need to restore a document. It does not facilitate the failover of your total environment should your infrastructure become compromised. They also do not include the physical resources required to bring them online.

  1. Additional resource needs

A backup is simply a copy of data intended to be restored to the original source.

DR requires a separate production environment where the data can live. All aspects of the current environment should be considered, including physical resources, software, connectivity and security.

  1. Planning process

Planning a backup routine is relatively simple, since typically the only goals are to meet the RPO (recovery point objective) and data retention requirements.

A complete disaster recovery strategy requires additional planning, including determining which systems are considered mission critical, creating a recovery order and communication process, and most importantly, a way to perform a valid test.

The overall benefits and importance of a DR plan are to mitigate risk and downtime, maintain compliance and avoid outages. Backups serve a simpler purpose. Make sure you know which solution makes sense for your business needs.

Sysfore can clear your misconceptions about Cloud Data Backup and Cloud Disaster Recovery. Get in touch through info@sysfore.com or call us at +91-80-4110-5555.