A company can want remote access, newer infrastructure, easier server management, and a better disaster-recovery posture without wanting to replace Sage 100.
That distinction is the heart of a hosted Sage 100 migration.
The ERP and the Infrastructure Are Different Decisions
Sage 100 is the business application.
The server, network, remote-access platform, backup system, identity model, and hosting environment are the infrastructure underneath it.
A business may decide that the infrastructure needs to change while the ERP still fits the business perfectly well.
Sage Itself Supports Hosted Deployment Models
Sage's own product material describes Sage 100 cloud deployment and highlights potential benefits including remote-access flexibility, scalability, security, operational efficiency, and reduced IT burden.
Those are platform-level benefits.
The migration still needs to account for the specific Sage environment being moved.
The Sage Environment Is Bigger Than the Database
Long-running systems often include:
- Custom Crystal Reports and forms
- Paperless Office archives and delivery
- Payroll
- Visual Integrator jobs
- ODBC connections
- Warehouse, shipping, EDI, tax, or other integrations
- Custom Office panels and user-defined fields
- Workstation components
- Historical environments
Moving the company data without understanding those dependencies is not the same thing as moving the Sage environment.
You Can Keep the Workflows People Already Know
One reason organizations consider hosted Sage 100 is that the infrastructure can change without forcing employees to learn a completely different ERP at the same time.
Sage's own customer stories describe organizations retaining Sage 100 while changing how and where users access it.
That can make the project much more focused: modernize the environment without unnecessarily redesigning every accounting workflow.
We Do Not Have to Sell the Hosting Platform
All Kleer can work with the client's IT team or infrastructure provider.
They own the hosting and infrastructure side.
We own the Sage side.
That separation keeps the project honest.