1. The Truth About The Cloud Presenter: Don Thomson, CEO TaiRox Software Inc.

2. Balancing the Hype Cloud computing is the biggest game-changer since the internet and Y2K Computing in the cloud is slow, expensive, insecure, unreliable and NSA will spy on you

3. Clear Vision

4. Vision - Black Elk Speaks What is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

5. Vision Requires Context

6. #1 Reason 88% adopted cloud computing to save money 56% said they actually saved money Staff hours per year from 25,000 to 10,000

7. Top 5 Cloud Services 1.Storage 2.Collaboration 3.Messaging 4.Office suites 5.Business process applications

8. Agenda: The ERP Mid-Market How is cloud computing relevant Silicon Valley technology, past and present Rent vs. Buy

9. The ERP Mid-Market Runs on Windows Runs on Microsoft Office Runs on Excel and Outlook Software is designed for LANs, not WANs Is Customized!

10. Not Relevant to the ERP Mid-Market

11. Relevant to the ERP Mid-Market Web Store as a Service (customer self-service) Approval as a Service (employee self-service) Analytics as a Service (employee self-service) Exchange Rates as a Service (automation) Disaster Recovery as a Service (automation)

12. Web Store as a Service

13. Approval as a Service

14. Analytics as a Service

15. Customer Self-Service

16. Employee Self-Service

18. Exchange Rates as a Service

22. The Early Vision Making people’s lives better – home computers.

24. The First West Coast Computer Faire

27. What Actually Happened Home computing became business computing

28. Game Changers

32. “About 80% of all web sites we see on the internet including popular sites like Google, Yahoo, Facebook run on Linux servers.”

33. Game Changers

34. Home Computing

35. Back to the ERP Mid-Market

36. Rent or Buy? “Rent 14 foot ladder $72 per week, buy 14.5 foot ladder $289” - sources: A & B Tools, Sears “Go into any car dealership … lease … everybody makes more money … that way.” - source: serverwatch.com “Unfortunately, upgrading memory on our rental servers would nearly double our monthly hosting fees.” - source: stackoverflow.com

37. Sage 300 ERP 4 User GLAPAR Purchase with Business Care – 3 years: $28,036 – 4 years: $31,648 Rent from Sage 300 ERP Online – 3 years: $25,776 – 4 years: $34,368

38. Can I Get Rid of My Server?

39. How do you share your printers and scanner? How do you share your internet connection? Where do you store your spreadsheets? Where do you store your auto-cad files? Do you have a cloud-based email service? Do you have a domain? How is your data backed-up? How are your backups tested?

40. Does It Make Your Life Easier? Access anywhere (web browser, mobile device) Deploy anywhere (data center, on premises) Connect anytime Knows where I am Employee & customer self-service

41. Rent or Buy?

48. Vision - Black Elk Speaks A man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.