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Who writes this and what product is Sage talking about? It makes it appear as if you can be a Sage xxx customer and simply moving to the cloud gives your software magic powers. http://blog.sageerpsolutions.com/get-ready-to-implement-cloud-based-erp/

What a POS. This looks like something MTSI would publish for keyword stuffing. And 90% of the content is bullcrap. This is why I hate the hype around cloud, even if there are many good reasons for it, this scuzbucket stuff puts an ugly taint on it.

It's clearly aimed at X3 prospects. The link from ""Streamlined budgets ..."" is a pretty interesting link to Forbes describing how large firms are moving to 2-Tier ERP, where divisions adopt Dynamics and tie it to corporate SAP. That's clearly something Sage wants to do with X3. The content here is, as usual, making it sound like it is aimed at everybody from 100 employees on up. But they are clearly fishing for the major firms.

I'm not so sure Jerry. The X3 7.0 version is going to be Cloud based out of the box so there might be a correlation but this just seems like a nonsense, SEO-driven blog post to me.

I read the post as implying that someone could take what they're already using, add cloud and come out with virtually a new product with expanded features.

I also agree that the quality of the post, from a consultant's perspective, sucks. It is indeed SEO bait written by a blog-content contractor. And X3 doesn't really do cloud today. But it will soon, and more important it will be cloud next year and after that when these migrations get looked at for specific products. Most blog readers don't read more than the 1st couple paragraphs. Hell, a depressing number don't look beyond the headline, even a controversial one. It looks to me like Sage is really aiming at general-impression setting so that they can be considered in the near- to mid-future. That doesn't bother me.

I forget where but some major blogger did an experiment recently where the 2nd paragraph was all weird on purpose and he noted that only a tiny fraction of the thousands of 'hits' actually read beyond the first paragraph

I mentioned that experiment at 90 Minds. In paragraph two, he said the first person in the comments that types the word ""lemonade"" would get $100 (something like that - I can't recall the specifics). There were hundreds and hundreds of replies before someone typed ""lemonade"". Prior to that people were arguing back and forth about the author's opinion based on the title alone. Sad day for bloggers if you ask me.

Ahh, that's what I was thinking of. Notice how the 'telephone' effect butchered it :)

Peter, I had that in mind. It is one of those unpleasant facts of life backing up the idea that humans are not nearly as rational as we pretend to be. It's also a reminder for all of us that the audience for our writings should define content, form and style. IMO Wayne's objection to the piece is perfectly appropriate to this audience of consultants interested in substance. But IMO that complaint is a waste of time in more general circulation. But I do think this S**t is potentially useful for us consultants to use as straw men to knock down with analyses designed to leave the impression that we really do know issues important to people considering ERP, and so they should pay us for advice.