Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 12 | Page 102

FINAL WORD CLOUD IS GROWING, BUT WILL IT BE YOUR ORGANISATION’S DOWNFALL? The reality today is that most enterprise applications are well on their way to being cloud based. We’ve seen it with simple workloads such as HR and payroll, travel and expense management, and in the last decade we’ve seen the cloud as the new normal for customer relationship management (CRM) deployments, writes Hesham El Komy, Senior Director, Epicor Software. 102 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com