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Is SaaS the same as cloud?

Is SaaS the same as cloud?

By Phil Wainewright on March 19, 2010

From the customer’s perspective, it’s all the same. If it’s provided over the Internet on a pay-for-usage basis, it’s a cloud service. Within the industry, we argue about definitions more than is good for us. Customers look in from the outside and see a much simpler array of choices. Why is this important? It matters […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Business applications, ByD, Cloud Computing, ecosystems, erp, europe, Marketplaces, Platform as a service, SaaS, sap, SAP Business ByDesign, Utility computing

People-centric IT for a new decade

People-centric IT for a new decade

By Phil Wainewright on January 5, 2010

Continuing my review of emerging trends that are going to be big in 2010, here’s one that I suspect will be a defining theme for IT throughout the coming decade. In one of my favorite postings of 2009 back in September, I called this trend The democratization of IT. Developing those thoughts over the past […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Architecture, Business applications, collaboration, Computing, Development, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise software, Information technology, Management, Service-oriented architecture, SOA, social computing, strategy, Technology / Software, Web 2.0, Web services | 7 Responses

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