This presentation discusses the challenges CIOs face today in responding quickly to the growing demand from business users for technology solutions. The roots of the challenge and available solutions are presented along with industry stats and facts.

1. The Transformative Power of
Caspio in the Enterprise
A Guide for IT and Business Leaders to Accelerate Technology
Innovation using a PaaS for LoB Users

2. CEOs are in Conflict with their IT Leaders
According to research from Harvard Business Review, Information
Week and others:
 Almost 50% of CEOs rate their CIOs negatively in terms of
understanding the business and how to apply IT in new ways.
 Almost 50% of CEOs feel IT should be a commodity service
purchased as needed.
 57% of executives expect their IT function to change significantly
over the next three years, and 12% predict a complete overhaul of
IT.

3. Business Users Demand Agility from CIOs
According to research from IDC and Information Week:
 82% business users are not very satisfied with their IT.
 Technology has become essential in improving business processes,
enabling greater speed, efficiency, and reliability.
 Business users expect easy-to-use solutions delivered to them fast.

4. Causes of Dissatisfaction
 Consumer applications are evolving much faster than business
applications
 Business users expect the same rate of innovation in their
workplace
 Mobile and Cloud have raised the expectation for immediate and
anywhere access
 Organizations are expected to move fast and be more efficient
 Employees are increasingly disengaged and uninspired

5. CIO Problems are Growing
According to Forrester and Gartner:
 72% of IT budget is spent on “maintenance” draining resources
 Global IT Debt* or backlog will grow to $1 trillion by 2015
 *IT Debt: the cost required to clear up the exploding backlog

6. Transformative Approaches are Needed
 CIOs must realize that the era in which organizations could
exclusively depend on their internal IT resources as a source of
competitive advantage is at an end.
 There are more sources of innovation available in the world than
ever before.
 Enterprise software that used to be the exclusive domain of a few
vendors is completely transformed by new SaaS and PaaS
companies.

7. Information Management Challenges are
Growing
 Unofficial use of cloud and mobile applications is growing. 1 in 4
organizations see unauthorized use of cloud file sharing services.
 Shadow IT engaging in procurement and creation of IT solutions is
on the rise.
 Information security and management challenges are rising as IT
can no longer control the flow of information.

8. Transformative Power of the New Cloud
Solutions
As Forbes’ Joe McKendrick points out: “IT cost savings and speedier
deployment are but a brief prelude to the main story. It’s only the
first 10%. The remaining 90% is what happens to the business itself.
It’s the transformation, enabling it to react to market opportunities,
communicate and collaborate internally and externally, design and
test new products, and become more agile. This ‘second chapter’ to
cloud will produce far greater, but far more intangible, benefits.”

9. Traditional vs. the New
According to Geoffrey Moore, SaaS frees us all from the tyranny of
the product release business model. Yes, with SaaS there is some
level of ongoing disruption that you must cope with both within IT
and with your user base, but please, do not even mention that in the
same breath with the kind of burden the product release model
imposes. Instead, thank your lucky stars you are getting innovation
that you are paying for when you are paying for it. It is current, and
so are you. This is huge!”

10. Caspio’s New Approach to Information
Management
 Caspio is a Platform-as-a-Service that enables business users to
create cloud database applications without coding and operate
them without requiring IT.
 The business user knows better than anyone else the problem they
want to solve. Providing them with a tool that allows them to
bring their ideas into existence can have a profound impact on
business, increase engagement and free up limited IT resources.

11. Caspio’s Impact is Growing
 Caspio was founded in 2000 and since then has become the fastest
and most efficient platform for creating business database
applications for web and mobile.
 Today it powers over 500,000 applications for Fortune-500
companies, government agencies, universities, non-profits and
small companies.
 Many organizations have now standardized their application
development on Caspio.

12. Central Data Management
 The Caspio advantage comes from its rapid development,
simplicity and security.
 It uses open standards and adheres to the highest levels of
security standards.
 Caspio is built on the best-of-breed technologies and operates on
Amazon Web Services from several Global Sites.
 It can be easily integrated with existing solutions and other SaaS
services.

13. Meeting the Needs of IT and Business
 Caspio strikes a balance between the requirements of IT and the
needs from business users.
 IT can be assured of data security and compliances while business
users can take an active role in quickly building and deploying
solutions.
 Caspio has proven to increase organization efficiency, eliminate
data chaos, and invigorate innovation.
 With Caspio business users can take a scientific approach to
create, test and improve their ideas.

14. An All-in-one Solution for Custom
Business Applications for the Cloud
Visual App Builder
Cloud Database
On-Demand
Infrastructure

15. Caspio is a Proven Solution
 “Plain and simple, Caspio has equipped me to enable my clients and partners in
ways I didn't think were possible. The speed and efficiency with which I can do
things is unparalleled. Best of all, I am in full control.”
- Rogers
 “We doubled our leads and cut our processing time by close to 75%. It’s
impossible not to be happy with statistics like these.”
- American Management Association
 “Many projects just would not have gotten done if it wasn’t for Caspio.”
- Indiana Department of Natural Resources
 “The whole company is talking about getting apps on Caspio.”
- Barnes & Noble

16. Customers Apply Caspio to the Entire
Enterprise
Operations
 Catalog Management
 Order Management
 Product Registration
 Project Management
 Resource / Task Scheduling
 Task Management
Human Resources
 Recruiting
 Vacation Requests
 Training & Workforce Mgmt
Sales
 CRM
 Lead Generation
 Quote Management
 Classifieds/Product Listings
Support
 Service Ticket Tracking
 Knowledge Base
 Product Registration
 Warranty Management
 Recall Management
Marketing
 Product Catalogs
 Events Management
 Membership
 Surveys / Feedback
IT
 User Management
 Help Desk
 Asset Tracking

17. Let the Transformation Start Today!
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