With traditional SaaS solutions, restrictions like the use of proprietary formats tie you to a vendor from the minute you decide to use his services. This strategy of lock-in makes you unable to use another vendor without substantial switching costs. Then, nothing prevents the vendor to increase his prices after 1 or 2 years. With the OpenERP on line, you don't fall into such an inflexible situation.

We guarantee that the software running on OpenERP Online is exactly the same as the Open Source official version of OpenERP. Any improvement made on OpenERP will be ported online and vice-versa. Therefore, you can switch anytime from the SaaS version to the local version. This allows you to adapt your infrastructure to the solution that suits your needs the best whenever you want. Moreover, you are able to change of service provider anytime and continue using the exact same system. Hence, you are not dependent on your host or even maintenance partner either. In addition, OpenERP works with standard and open formats and programming languages which allow you to export your data and use them in any other software. These advantages give you a total control over your data, your software, your platform.

	OpenERP Online	Traditional SaaS
* Cloud-independent      Switch to the local application (OpenERP) anytime
* Vendor-independent      Multiple providers exist to guarantee competition and low prices
* Platform-independent      Work on any operating system and browse
* Software-independent      Interface OpenERP Online with 3rd party web-services
* Format-independent      Export your data in standard re-usable format