AWS CloudFormation vs. LightEdge

AWS CloudFormation is well suited for scenarios where all of your resources need to be provisioned on AWS but it is not suited for hybrid cloud deployments. It's very easy for someone new to learn. The level of customization offered as part of the template specifically for AWS services is great. There is also a UI tool where we can drag and drop the services we want and it generates an yaml file which is very easy to use. The visibility of stacks and its resources and one place where we can track and identify the issues in deployment is great.

Incentivized

OnRamp is great for medium or large size companies that need to organize information in a way that is easily accessible. It is not great for small companies who don't have a lot of customers.

Incentivized

• SaaS
• Paas
• Iaas
• On promises

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• OnRamp does a great job at pulling up specific contact information about our donors
• OnRamp allows for us to find detailed payment information regarding postings to our general ledger
• It is very easy to run various reports with OnRamp

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• Error Description upon Failure Needs to be Improved.
• Slow to create, delete or update.
• Need to delete resources manually. It can ask before starting deletion whether to skip those resources or delete them.

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• I hear complaints from our donations department on how extractions can be difficult at times when pulling multiple years information
• OnRamp can make room for improvement by allowing us to make changes from an admin standpoint on how we pull up certain reports

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We didn't look into anything else as Cloudformation was "built-in" for AWS, it just kind of made sense to go with that. Terraform was something that we briefly looked into Terraform but decides to stick with Cloudformation because our task was relatively "simple". Apparently if it's a bit more complex, Terraform might be the way to go.

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OnRamp is much easier to use then Financial Edge with its user-friendly interface. Financial Edge seems dated and is much more complicated when running reports.

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• It has a positive ROI
• Less time inverted in bugs
• More stable source code

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• OnRamp saves us time on retrieving data
• OnRamp helps us organize payment information and makes it easily accessible for users
• The security of using OnRamp is the best investment a company can make.

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