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[Ray Carnes <rcarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To back this up, the first two things that became 'commonly' hosted by
third parties on publicly accessible (though locked down via
authentication methods) were:

(In the US at least)

1) Payroll (as suggested by Fabrice - it doesn't get more 'private' than
this.
2) CRM (there can be no other kind of data more sensitive to a company
that a customer list)

ADP and Salesforce.com (and competitors) have convinced the market that
this is secure and have so far been able to protect the data.

Ray.

P.S.  -  what does this mean for your/our SAAS customers - everything they
have is on a public website!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Openerp-community
[mailto:openerp-community-bounces+rcarnes=ursainfosystems.com@lists.launch
pad.net] On Behalf Of Fabrice Henrion
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 6:46 PM
To: 'W. Martin Borgert'
Cc: 'OpenERP Community'
Subject: Re: [Openerp-community] Fwd: OpenERP CMS: How is server
separation implemented?

> From: W. Martin Borgert:
> In an ERP you have much more data than only that.
There is a lot of data that should never, ever be on a publically
accessible
server, such as employees contract data or their illness times. A public
web
shop should only have the necessary data on the server.

This was probably true many years ago, but I can assure you that in a
market
like the USA and many others, the vast majority of SMBs are outsourcing
their payroll to HR service providers like ADP, Trinet, and hundreds of
others who take care of not only payroll but employment contracts, time
off,... All these HR service providers provide a web application (ie.
portal) for their customers to process all this, which is as a matter of
fact sitting somewhere on a server that is accessible over the internet
with
just a login and password. In terms of private data, I don't think it gets
more critical than payslips and employment contracts. But this
accessibility
is a necessity. It's just where the future of management software is
headed.
__
Fabrice Henrion


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