An excellent (German) article by BITKOM summarizes business challenges, decision points, and business models of cloud-based solutions. BITKOM segments the “Cloud” space into Software, Platforms, and Infrastructure. While this is all true and good for current business, the Cloud stack looks more like Information, Relationships, Services, Platforms, Infrastructure, and Networks.
Berney Finucane is analyst of the Business Application Research Center (BARC). He is making a clear distinction between Software as a Service (SaaS) and web-based tools – which are not necessarily SaaS. He argues that with SaaS you could reduce server costs. But on the other hand this is an objective for general IT over all and not a BI-specific topic – in fact BI might be a prohibiting factor, as sensitive data is unlikely to be sent outside.
Office2.0 applications become so ubiquitous, that I already use the term “standalone” for SaaS applications that run in a browser from a server, without any additional mashup or as a plugin within other applications…
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