In the technology world, scalability defines a solution's ability to process large volumes of data quickly-without slowing down or breaking.

Typically measured in transactions per second, an inability to handle large volumes can reduce performance-leading to inefficiencies and end user frustrations.

Scale is sometimes overlooked when evaluating cloud ERP solutions. But it's important. Most organizations require fast data processing not only for efficiency, but to get insight into the most-current data. If you have to wait until a batch of transactions run overnight-which, until recently, was common in the banking industry-you're already looking a data that's a day old.

Your company might not need to handle millions of transactions, but cloud scalability is an important consideration for any business.