Plan For The Transition To The Cloud
- Educational institutions may feel uncertainty about moving to the cloud, but by waiting, they may be missing out on many of the benefits the cloud has to offer.
- A successful move to the cloud should be preceded by in-depth planning, risk assessments, transition strategies, costing
measurements and metrics, and keeping open communication.
“83 percent of the participants in the fall 2016 Campus
Computing Survey said that cloud computing will play an
increasingly important role in their campus ERP strategy.”
Like many observers of IT in higher education, Kenneth C. Green, founding director of the Campus Computing Project, views the arrival of mission-critical, cloud-based enterprise resource planning resources and services to be a matter of when, not if.