Walking on air: The Cloud gets real

Posted on 31 Aug 2012 by Malcolm Wheatley

Move to the cloud? Four hard-nosed manufacturers explain to Malcolm Wheatley why they’ve done it.

In early 2011, Crawley-based Edwards Ltd faced a quandary, explains information management director Anil Patel. The firm – a manufacturer of vacuum equipment for the world’s semiconductor and other hi-tech industries – wanted to move its fast-growing Chinese operations onto its existing SAP ERP infrastructure. But that infrastructure, built around SAP’s venerable mainstream R/3 (now…

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