ADP’s Sudden Payroll Cloud Conversion: True Faith or Smoke Screen for Proxy War?

[IanInsights] – It’s been at least 15 years since a vendor migrating its products to the cloud has been newsworthy. At the beginning of the adoption cycle, it was interesting and the industry watched intently. Since then, nearly every software category has made the transition, including cloud laggard ERP. Cloud migration has long since been settled and those vendors that have not embraced it have mostly fallen into obscurity.

Yet here we are in late 2017 with a vendor announcing it will finally migrate its product line to the cloud. And it’s newsworthy, but for all the wrong reasons. (read more)