Cloud Computing – Explicitly Redefined For Enterprises Companies are moving quickly to leverage the cloud for the services that most readily bring the greatest business value in the short term. And not surprisingly, the greatest growth in the cloud is in the CRM and collaboration tools sector. Specifically, in the enterprise segment, the major focus is being put on complex engagements. Strictly speaking, complex engagements involve cutting-edge enterprises that are migrating to the cloud, and when these enterprises move to the cloud, there are facets of different technology and infrastructure that need to be handled. Such facets usually include large
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Calculating the ROI on Cloud – Part 2 Continued From Part 1 Productivity Enhancement Productivity enhancements are more subjective in nature than direct cost savings; they are dependent on the type of business and the current organizational set up. Application Development The notion of Platform as a Service (PaaS) is to extract the common set of services as a platform and enable the cloud developer to become more productive and agile. The set of services provided by the platform can be categorized as Middleware – Identity, authentication, worlflow, mashup Computation – logic execution, messaging, transactions Data Layer – Relational data,
