ERP Software

Oracle ERP and Amazon EC2 Join Hands

The Amazon and Oracle ERP EC2 or Elastic Compute Cloud is a joint venture created by the joining of technology and applications by Oracle and Amazon.  Amazon’s EC2 is a commercial web service, which will offer Oracle’s ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning and CRM or Customer Relationship Management software applications.  The following Oracle ERP applications and databases that will be available include; OraclePeopleSoft, Oracle, J.D. Edwards and Oracle eBusiness Suite.  Oracle Siebel CRM is in the works and is expected to be offered on Amazon’s EC2 in the near future.  Application support for all of these products will be provided by Oracle.

To take advantage of Oracle’s product offerings you must have an Amazon account.  If you don’t have an Amazon account you can easily set one up on the Amazon website.  Once you have an account you’ll need to install Amazon EC2 API Tools, create an instance of a class and configure that instance.  You will configure security and network access on this instance.  When setting up your Amazon account, you’ll need to select the option to “Sign Up for Amazon EC2”.  Once you’ve selected this option, Amazon will step you through the process to create a certificate.  Once you’ve completed these steps you will be able to obtain the AMIs or Amazon Machine Images.  Amazon Machine Images contain things like your data, your applications, your configurations, and so on.

Amazon EC2’s interface is user-friendly and saves you money because you only have to pay for the computing space you use.  This type of ERP and CRM offering is taking the Enterprise Resource Planning market to a whole new level.  Oracle’s CEO, Larry Ellison, recently announced this ERP venture with Amazon at Open World 2010 conference.  Ellison has high expectations for this cloud platform and pointed out how elastic and flexible this offering is.  In a day and age where an economy is attempting to recover from a recession, perhaps this offering will be just what folks are looking for.  Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management offerings are inexpensive on Amazon EC2.  There are no long-term contracts or commitments, no maintenance costs, no hardware costs, and no associate headaches.  It will be interesting to see what happens with this offering in 2011. Smaller companies may be the likeliest to jump on board.  But, only time will tell!

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kristine H