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Author: Tim Gehrig
Tim Gehrig, executive vice president of cloud and managed services at Sierra-Cedar, is responsible for Sierra-Cedar’s managed services and cloud technology consulting businesses, including AWS, Salesforce, Oracle, MuleSoft, and Splunk. Tim has more than 20 years of business technology experience. Tim has an executive MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, is certified with AWS, and has been a speaker at numerous industry and technology events.
Digital transformation in higher education: Three benefits of ERP migration to the cloud
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems handle everything from accounting to marketing, finances to inventory, human resources to customer relations, and more. Colleges and universities commit significant infrastructure and personnel resources to run and manage these vital applications. But shifts in technology adoption, reduced availability of skilled labor, and increased economic pressures push colleges and universities to assess the return on their material ERP system investments. One way higher education institutions realize additional return on their scarce resources is by using cloud technologies. After Arizona State University (ASU) moved to AWS, the university was able to effectively allocate resources to benefit its students and solve operational problems that would otherwise require additional investment. Check out three benefits higher education institutions can recognize by moving ERP systems to the cloud.