The document discusses community clouds, which deliver data, services, analytics, and products to closed communities using cloud technologies. It provides examples of types of data and services available through community clouds and argues they can provide larger data sets and access to analytics not affordable to companies individually. The Aras Connected Cloud allows a company's on-site PLM system to connect to both public cloud and community cloud data and services through federation within the PLM client application. This provides access to external data sources while keeping intellectual property in-house.