Microsoft Dynamics ERP Customers See Advantages in Shift to SaaS, Echoing Industry Trend

"We're an early-stage company that started in 2004 and we didn't do product manufacturing until late October 2009," said Syndiant Controller Cory Johnson. "In December 2009 the executives of the corporation made a decision that it would be wise to go from QuickBooks to an ERP system. And they decided since we didn't have an onsite IT staff it would be better and more cost efficient to run it as a SaaS hosted model."

After looking at a number of vendors, the company chose Tensoft Inc.'s Fabless Semiconductor Management solution (FSM) and Microsoft Dynamics GP using Tensoft's hosted subscription model.

"It went live April 15 2010 and, for the most part, it went pretty smooth," he said. "The full ERP system was to help us manage from cradle to grave from procurement of raw materials to the maintaining and monitoring of our manufacturing that was outsourced to a third party. We had to have vendor integration so they could send us inventory status reports that we can automatically import and it will update and move our inventory from one manufacturing step to another and update the general ledger and accounting system on a more timely basis so we can be more efficient."

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