Insights from 1,500 IT decision makers giving a perspective on the level of Platform-as-a-service adoption and strategic relevance of this form of cloud computing.
If you ask a group of IT leaders about their strategic goals, their responses will likely
address business growth. Today’s IT leaders understand they have an unprecedented
stake in corporate success, thanks to transformational IT-led business trends such as
social networking and crowd sourcing, m-commerce and virtual teaming, analytics-driven
decision making and “everything as a service.” For these leaders, “innovation” and
“agility” are not just words on a PowerPoint slide, but a mandate for corporate value and
differentiation.
Thinking of innovation in a tough economy? Read more and learn about the benefits of utilizing Open Source, Cloud Computing and Engineering Automation.
This document discusses the cost benefits of adopting open source monitoring tools. It provides case studies of several large companies that have realized significant cost savings, ranging from 30-80% reduced costs per project to 90% lower total cost of ownership for monitoring, by adopting open source solutions. The document analyzes several popular open source monitoring projects based on attributes like code quality, community support and activity levels. It observes that projects with increasing commit rates and committer numbers over time are waxing, while those with declining rates are waning. The document concludes with best practices for enterprises adopting open source.
The Customer Fact Sheet ES Bundle provides essential customer information through reusable enterprise services. It leverages services related to customer, invoice, and contact data to generate a consolidated fact sheet. The bundle includes guidance on using the services, technical details, and lessons learned from other customers. It allows quick enablement of a customer fact sheet capability with pre-defined services and content from SAP and partners.
SBM is a process management platform that allows companies to rapidly create process-based applications to improve agility, productivity, and accountability. Over 1600 companies use SBM to quickly demonstrate business value through prototyping applications in weeks and then taking an iterative approach to optimization. SBM enables easy design of dynamic forms and seamless connection to existing infrastructure, as well as change management capabilities and mobile approvals.
PSAV, an event services company with 2,500 employees across 600 locations, was spending over $300,000 annually on third-party audio and web conferencing services. They deployed Microsoft Office Communications Server and Unified Messaging in Exchange Server to improve communications capabilities and reduce costs. The integrated solution provides instant messaging, presence, and audio/video conferencing at a fraction of the previous cost. It has replaced third-party services and improved collaboration, saving PSAV over $300,000 per year.
Glassbeam Moves SaaS Application to the Cloud for Improved Flexibility and Lo...Keao Caindec
Glassbeam moved its entire SaaS infrastructure, its web, parsing, and database servers, from OpSource’s Managed Hosting to the OpSource Cloud seamlessly and without incident.
If you ask a group of IT leaders about their strategic goals, their responses will likely
address business growth. Today’s IT leaders understand they have an unprecedented
stake in corporate success, thanks to transformational IT-led business trends such as
social networking and crowd sourcing, m-commerce and virtual teaming, analytics-driven
decision making and “everything as a service.” For these leaders, “innovation” and
“agility” are not just words on a PowerPoint slide, but a mandate for corporate value and
differentiation.
Thinking of innovation in a tough economy? Read more and learn about the benefits of utilizing Open Source, Cloud Computing and Engineering Automation.
This document discusses the cost benefits of adopting open source monitoring tools. It provides case studies of several large companies that have realized significant cost savings, ranging from 30-80% reduced costs per project to 90% lower total cost of ownership for monitoring, by adopting open source solutions. The document analyzes several popular open source monitoring projects based on attributes like code quality, community support and activity levels. It observes that projects with increasing commit rates and committer numbers over time are waxing, while those with declining rates are waning. The document concludes with best practices for enterprises adopting open source.
The Customer Fact Sheet ES Bundle provides essential customer information through reusable enterprise services. It leverages services related to customer, invoice, and contact data to generate a consolidated fact sheet. The bundle includes guidance on using the services, technical details, and lessons learned from other customers. It allows quick enablement of a customer fact sheet capability with pre-defined services and content from SAP and partners.
SBM is a process management platform that allows companies to rapidly create process-based applications to improve agility, productivity, and accountability. Over 1600 companies use SBM to quickly demonstrate business value through prototyping applications in weeks and then taking an iterative approach to optimization. SBM enables easy design of dynamic forms and seamless connection to existing infrastructure, as well as change management capabilities and mobile approvals.
PSAV, an event services company with 2,500 employees across 600 locations, was spending over $300,000 annually on third-party audio and web conferencing services. They deployed Microsoft Office Communications Server and Unified Messaging in Exchange Server to improve communications capabilities and reduce costs. The integrated solution provides instant messaging, presence, and audio/video conferencing at a fraction of the previous cost. It has replaced third-party services and improved collaboration, saving PSAV over $300,000 per year.
Glassbeam Moves SaaS Application to the Cloud for Improved Flexibility and Lo...Keao Caindec
Glassbeam moved its entire SaaS infrastructure, its web, parsing, and database servers, from OpSource’s Managed Hosting to the OpSource Cloud seamlessly and without incident.
SAP is the world’s leading ERP vendor, its soft ware lies at the core of tens of thousands of organizations. This
paper describes how a number of companies have chosen to make use of IBM’s high-end server technology as
a means to consolidate their SAP landscapes into a single environment, and the benefits in terms of reliability,
performance, agility and cost-reduction they've gained by doing so. IBM’s z Enterprise platform can be used either
as a scale up platform (in which workload is all run on the same server machine) or at the heart of a scale out
environment in which workload can be partitioned between the scale-up server and an integrated blade
environment in which AIX, Linux and Windows blades can be run and managed.
Understanding Corporate Portals Key Knowledge Management Enabling ApplicationsJose Claudio Terra
Discute como Portais Corporativos e suas funcionalidades podem ser utilizadas para desenvolver e implementar Gestão do Conhecimento, através da mudança de como a informação e as responsabilidades de colaboração são divididas na organização.
www.terraforum.com.br
SaaS platforms are evolving to meet the needs of emerging SaaS vendors. Major technology companies are positioning themselves as SaaS platforms and offering development tools, operations support, and marketing capabilities to SaaS vendors. This allows SaaS vendors to focus on their specialized applications while leveraging a platform for additional functions. Deciding whether and how to align with a SaaS platform is an important consideration for SaaS company CEOs.
Accept Software chose OpSource to host and manage its complex SaaS environment based on a proven track record, deep technical skills, and a partnership mentality.
Cordys is a software platform vendor with over 30 years of experience. It helps customers improve business operations through world-class, process-oriented software that allows for greater speed, flexibility and innovation. Cordys' single platform can be used for integration, business process management, and application development both on-premise and in the cloud. The platform and its solutions help customers increase customer intimacy, operational excellence, and product leadership.
Peplink has recently been featured in Ovum's "On the Radar" report. The report highlights Peplink's SpeedFusion technology as one to watch in an enterprise market where fast, always-on, multicarrier/multilink Internet connectivity is increasingly critical.
Red Hat SOA: The complete guide provides an introduction to Red Hat's approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA). It explains that Red Hat believes SOA should be simple, open, and affordable. It delivers open source engines, frameworks, stacks, and components to help organizations realize the benefits of SOA. Red Hat subscriptions also provide enterprise-class support while avoiding expensive proprietary licensing fees. The guide outlines how Red Hat works with customers and open source communities to drive innovation and ensure reliable, relevant solutions.
RedPrairie is using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to develop the next version of its business process management software. This will allow them to:
1) Extend workflow design capabilities to non-technical users by rehosting the workflow designer outside of Visual Studio.
2) Eliminate performance penalties for frequently persisted workflows by taking advantage of improvements to workflow persistence in .NET Framework 4.
3) Provide improved support for long-running workflows by allowing multiple workflow snapshots to be saved.
Through these enhancements, RedPrairie aims to increase developer productivity, provide a better user experience, and deliver higher quality software.
This document provides a competitive analysis of the web page http://www.redprairie.com/ for the search term "logistics management software". It analyzes the page and identifies ways it could improve its search engine ranking, including optimizing the document title, global link popularity, keyword usage, and other ranking factors. A sample of inbound links to the site is provided, noting many have empty link text. Overall, the analysis finds the page meets only 30% of requirements for a top 10 ranking.
Cor source solutions on premise to on demand saas u 2 2012CorSource
The document provides an overview of moving an on-premise software product to an on-demand, Software as a Service (SaaS) model. It discusses key considerations for the business objectives, licensing model, leveraging the current product, architectural planning, development processes, and infrastructure migration. The levels of SaaS maturity and key factors of enabling SaaS are also outlined.
Taking management of your SAP environment to the next levelVijayan V.K
To effectively manage the growing complexity of your SAP environment & IT infrastructure and to successfully meet your business goals, you need superior application performance management solution
Change Manager‘s database comparison, alter, and synchronization capabilities enabled DBA Consulting to generate reports and reconcile differences between the different versions of the databases, tables, schemas, and other database objects.
This document discusses strategies for realizing the potential of service-oriented architecture (SOA). It outlines how SOA can help organizations shift IT priorities from cost cutting to driving growth and innovation. The document also discusses Oracle's SOA offerings and how they can help improve productivity, reduce integration costs, and manage growth through governance. Oracle provides a unified service platform and application integration architecture to simplify development and reduce infrastructure complexity when implementing SOA.
This document discusses service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the need for a proper methodology for developing SOA-based applications and services. It describes how existing modeling techniques like object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD), component-based development (CBD), and business process modeling are not fully suitable for SOA development as they do not address all aspects of services, composition, and supporting infrastructure. A new methodology is needed that fuses elements of existing practices while being grounded in SOA principles and addressing concerns like distributed development, service provisioning and management.
PaaS POV_To PaaS or Not There really is no question_150601_FINAL_PRINT_READYRene Claudio
Enterprise IT needs to achieve a much higher degree of agility by increasing delivery velocity from requirements to releases. PaaS is a foundational enabler of IT agility by allowing developers to focus on coding while automating operational activities like provisioning and deploying environments. PaaS provides application runtimes and services, enables microservices architectures, and automates operations tasks like infrastructure management, deployments, and scaling. Achieving IT agility starts with a PaaS proof-of-concept to identify workloads that would benefit and determine a roadmap for adoption.
Exploring the Power and Potential of Platform as a Service in Modern Cloud Co...Jenna Murray
Platform as a Service (PaaS) revolutionizes the landscape of cloud computing by offering a comprehensive environment for developing and deploying applications. With the flexibility of pay-as-you-go resource allocation from third-party providers. To read the full blog visit: https://www.rangtech.com/blog/cloud/exploring-the-power-and-potential-of-platform-as-a-service-paas-in-modern-cloud-computing
Estrategias para explotar las tendencias de SaaS y Cloud ComputingSoftware Guru
The document discusses strategies for leveraging Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing technologies. It begins by defining SaaS and cloud computing, then discusses their importance and growth. The remainder outlines strategies for software vendors, including building SaaS applications using platform as a service (PaaS) or combining various cloud services, as well as addressing technical considerations like multi-tenancy and billing when developing SaaS products.
Don't let it PaaS you by - the future of application PaaS in Financial ServicesSentronex
PaaS (Platform as a Service) is gaining more momentum, but many firms are still unsure about what it is and how it can benefit their business. This slideshare provides a better understanding of what PaaS is, the key drivers to move to PaaS and how to go about implementing a PaaS solution, particularly for financial services businesses..
Why is it important? What is it? What is fueling all of the growth? Find out the power of platform-as-a-service for the enterprise in this infographic.
Cloud computing provides IT resources and services over the Internet. There are three main service models - Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). SaaS provides applications to users while the provider manages the infrastructure. PaaS provides platforms for developers to create applications without worrying about infrastructure. IaaS provides basic computing and storage infrastructure for users to deploy and run software.
The document discusses the challenges of integrating Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and outlines different integration strategies. It notes that while SaaS lowers costs, it introduces integration challenges due to its multi-tenant architecture and frequent updates. Custom coding integrations is time-consuming and draining on resources. The best strategies are to use an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution or hire a systems integrator, as these options provide scalability, reduce costs and resource needs, and ensure compatibility with various applications and systems.
PaaS is a new category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure. PaaS can be delivered in two ways:
• as a public cloud service from a provider, where the consumer controls software deployment and configuration settings, and the provider provides the networks, servers, storage and other services to host the consumer's application; or
• as software installed in private data centers or public infrastructure as a service and managed by internal IT departments
SAP is the world’s leading ERP vendor, its soft ware lies at the core of tens of thousands of organizations. This
paper describes how a number of companies have chosen to make use of IBM’s high-end server technology as
a means to consolidate their SAP landscapes into a single environment, and the benefits in terms of reliability,
performance, agility and cost-reduction they've gained by doing so. IBM’s z Enterprise platform can be used either
as a scale up platform (in which workload is all run on the same server machine) or at the heart of a scale out
environment in which workload can be partitioned between the scale-up server and an integrated blade
environment in which AIX, Linux and Windows blades can be run and managed.
Understanding Corporate Portals Key Knowledge Management Enabling ApplicationsJose Claudio Terra
Discute como Portais Corporativos e suas funcionalidades podem ser utilizadas para desenvolver e implementar Gestão do Conhecimento, através da mudança de como a informação e as responsabilidades de colaboração são divididas na organização.
www.terraforum.com.br
SaaS platforms are evolving to meet the needs of emerging SaaS vendors. Major technology companies are positioning themselves as SaaS platforms and offering development tools, operations support, and marketing capabilities to SaaS vendors. This allows SaaS vendors to focus on their specialized applications while leveraging a platform for additional functions. Deciding whether and how to align with a SaaS platform is an important consideration for SaaS company CEOs.
Accept Software chose OpSource to host and manage its complex SaaS environment based on a proven track record, deep technical skills, and a partnership mentality.
Cordys is a software platform vendor with over 30 years of experience. It helps customers improve business operations through world-class, process-oriented software that allows for greater speed, flexibility and innovation. Cordys' single platform can be used for integration, business process management, and application development both on-premise and in the cloud. The platform and its solutions help customers increase customer intimacy, operational excellence, and product leadership.
Peplink has recently been featured in Ovum's "On the Radar" report. The report highlights Peplink's SpeedFusion technology as one to watch in an enterprise market where fast, always-on, multicarrier/multilink Internet connectivity is increasingly critical.
Red Hat SOA: The complete guide provides an introduction to Red Hat's approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA). It explains that Red Hat believes SOA should be simple, open, and affordable. It delivers open source engines, frameworks, stacks, and components to help organizations realize the benefits of SOA. Red Hat subscriptions also provide enterprise-class support while avoiding expensive proprietary licensing fees. The guide outlines how Red Hat works with customers and open source communities to drive innovation and ensure reliable, relevant solutions.
RedPrairie is using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to develop the next version of its business process management software. This will allow them to:
1) Extend workflow design capabilities to non-technical users by rehosting the workflow designer outside of Visual Studio.
2) Eliminate performance penalties for frequently persisted workflows by taking advantage of improvements to workflow persistence in .NET Framework 4.
3) Provide improved support for long-running workflows by allowing multiple workflow snapshots to be saved.
Through these enhancements, RedPrairie aims to increase developer productivity, provide a better user experience, and deliver higher quality software.
This document provides a competitive analysis of the web page http://www.redprairie.com/ for the search term "logistics management software". It analyzes the page and identifies ways it could improve its search engine ranking, including optimizing the document title, global link popularity, keyword usage, and other ranking factors. A sample of inbound links to the site is provided, noting many have empty link text. Overall, the analysis finds the page meets only 30% of requirements for a top 10 ranking.
Cor source solutions on premise to on demand saas u 2 2012CorSource
The document provides an overview of moving an on-premise software product to an on-demand, Software as a Service (SaaS) model. It discusses key considerations for the business objectives, licensing model, leveraging the current product, architectural planning, development processes, and infrastructure migration. The levels of SaaS maturity and key factors of enabling SaaS are also outlined.
Taking management of your SAP environment to the next levelVijayan V.K
To effectively manage the growing complexity of your SAP environment & IT infrastructure and to successfully meet your business goals, you need superior application performance management solution
Change Manager‘s database comparison, alter, and synchronization capabilities enabled DBA Consulting to generate reports and reconcile differences between the different versions of the databases, tables, schemas, and other database objects.
This document discusses strategies for realizing the potential of service-oriented architecture (SOA). It outlines how SOA can help organizations shift IT priorities from cost cutting to driving growth and innovation. The document also discusses Oracle's SOA offerings and how they can help improve productivity, reduce integration costs, and manage growth through governance. Oracle provides a unified service platform and application integration architecture to simplify development and reduce infrastructure complexity when implementing SOA.
This document discusses service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the need for a proper methodology for developing SOA-based applications and services. It describes how existing modeling techniques like object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD), component-based development (CBD), and business process modeling are not fully suitable for SOA development as they do not address all aspects of services, composition, and supporting infrastructure. A new methodology is needed that fuses elements of existing practices while being grounded in SOA principles and addressing concerns like distributed development, service provisioning and management.
PaaS POV_To PaaS or Not There really is no question_150601_FINAL_PRINT_READYRene Claudio
Enterprise IT needs to achieve a much higher degree of agility by increasing delivery velocity from requirements to releases. PaaS is a foundational enabler of IT agility by allowing developers to focus on coding while automating operational activities like provisioning and deploying environments. PaaS provides application runtimes and services, enables microservices architectures, and automates operations tasks like infrastructure management, deployments, and scaling. Achieving IT agility starts with a PaaS proof-of-concept to identify workloads that would benefit and determine a roadmap for adoption.
Exploring the Power and Potential of Platform as a Service in Modern Cloud Co...Jenna Murray
Platform as a Service (PaaS) revolutionizes the landscape of cloud computing by offering a comprehensive environment for developing and deploying applications. With the flexibility of pay-as-you-go resource allocation from third-party providers. To read the full blog visit: https://www.rangtech.com/blog/cloud/exploring-the-power-and-potential-of-platform-as-a-service-paas-in-modern-cloud-computing
Estrategias para explotar las tendencias de SaaS y Cloud ComputingSoftware Guru
The document discusses strategies for leveraging Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing technologies. It begins by defining SaaS and cloud computing, then discusses their importance and growth. The remainder outlines strategies for software vendors, including building SaaS applications using platform as a service (PaaS) or combining various cloud services, as well as addressing technical considerations like multi-tenancy and billing when developing SaaS products.
Don't let it PaaS you by - the future of application PaaS in Financial ServicesSentronex
PaaS (Platform as a Service) is gaining more momentum, but many firms are still unsure about what it is and how it can benefit their business. This slideshare provides a better understanding of what PaaS is, the key drivers to move to PaaS and how to go about implementing a PaaS solution, particularly for financial services businesses..
Why is it important? What is it? What is fueling all of the growth? Find out the power of platform-as-a-service for the enterprise in this infographic.
Cloud computing provides IT resources and services over the Internet. There are three main service models - Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). SaaS provides applications to users while the provider manages the infrastructure. PaaS provides platforms for developers to create applications without worrying about infrastructure. IaaS provides basic computing and storage infrastructure for users to deploy and run software.
The document discusses the challenges of integrating Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and outlines different integration strategies. It notes that while SaaS lowers costs, it introduces integration challenges due to its multi-tenant architecture and frequent updates. Custom coding integrations is time-consuming and draining on resources. The best strategies are to use an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution or hire a systems integrator, as these options provide scalability, reduce costs and resource needs, and ensure compatibility with various applications and systems.
PaaS is a new category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure. PaaS can be delivered in two ways:
• as a public cloud service from a provider, where the consumer controls software deployment and configuration settings, and the provider provides the networks, servers, storage and other services to host the consumer's application; or
• as software installed in private data centers or public infrastructure as a service and managed by internal IT departments
PaaS stands for Platform as a Service, which is a cloud computing model that provides a platform for software development and deployment. In this model, the provider offers infrastructure, middleware, and software tools as a service to users, who can then build and deploy their applications on top of this platform. This eliminates the need for users to manage and maintain the underlying infrastructure, allowing them to focus on developing and delivering their applications.
Why Software as a Service (SaaS) requires a new approach to Application Manag...Accenture Technology
Organizations are turning to the cloud first for core business functions. They seek breakthrough results as applications become increasingly powerful and the security and scalability of the cloud more reliable.
Glassbeam moved their SaaS application from hosted physical servers to virtual servers on OpSource Cloud to improve flexibility and lower costs. This allowed Glassbeam to dynamically scale resources up and down quickly instead of waiting weeks to commission new physical servers. Glassbeam now only pays for cloud resources when needed, reducing infrastructure costs dramatically while maintaining excellent support from OpSource.
This document discusses and dispels 5 common myths that CIOs have about platform-as-a-service (PaaS). The myths addressed are that PaaS won't help businesses, that businesses will lose control, that businesses cannot transition back from PaaS, that all PaaS offerings are the same, and that moving to PaaS will be too difficult. The document argues that PaaS provides benefits like better performance, lower costs, and easier maintenance for businesses of all sizes and allows businesses to retain control of applications while outsourcing infrastructure concerns. It also notes that PaaS offerings differ and that transitions to PaaS can be simpler than expected with the right support.
1) The document discusses pricing and packaging strategies for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. It explores how pricing differs for SaaS compared to traditional on-premise software.
2) Key components of SaaS contracts include subscription models, pricing metrics, contract terms, billing, revenue recognition, service level agreements, and dynamic scaling.
3) Pricing and packaging strategies should be driven by business objectives such as growing the customer base, maximizing revenue, or differentiation. The strategies may differ depending on if it is a new SaaS startup or an existing company transitioning to SaaS.
Testing applications in the cloud is referred to as cloud testing. It involves testing various aspects like availability, disaster recovery, interoperability, multi-tenancy, performance, and security. Cloud testing provides benefits such as cost savings, faster testing, disaster recovery, and flexibility. However, cloud computing also poses challenges for testing that organizations need to address such as issues that can arise from testing applications across various cloud modules and environments. Choosing an experienced testing partner can help enable successful migration of applications to the cloud.
On_Premise to On-Demand: Product Migration or Business Transformation - The D...white paper
This document discusses the challenges that established software companies face when transitioning their existing on-premise software products to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model. It provides advice from companies that have successfully made this transition. The key points made are:
1) Transitioning to SaaS requires transforming the entire business, not just the technology, including changes to marketing, sales, support, and revenue generation.
2) Companies commonly underestimate the depth of transformation needed and try to develop their own SaaS platform initially, rather than leveraging existing platforms.
3) Successful companies view this as a business transformation led by marketing and sales alongside product development, and have a
Cloud Key note Sven Denecken 2011 #SAPOnDemandSven Denecken
The document discusses SAP's strategy around cloud, SaaS, and mobile technologies. It notes that on-premise installations will still be used for the foreseeable future. It also discusses the need to connect on-demand offerings with on-premise systems and support hybrid environments. SAP's goal is to evolve existing systems through innovations like in-memory computing while allowing customers to handle tomorrow's challenges within today's environments.
Why Should Businesses Choose RISE with SAP for their Business Transformation ...Anil
RISE with SAP is SAP's unified cloud migration solution that addresses many challenges of migrating to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. It reduces total cost of ownership through lower infrastructure costs and faster deployment. RISE with SAP also provides standardization across multi-cloud environments and tackles integration complexities through tools that enable real-time data sharing. By improving data management and streamlining the migration process, RISE with SAP helps businesses successfully transition to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. However, expert guidance is still needed to navigate project transparency issues and ensure RISE with SAP maximizes business transformation goals.
Cloud-Enabled Enterprise Transformation: Driving Agility, Innovation and GrowthCognizant
Whether used for process optimization or modernization, cloud solutions bring much-needed flexibility to enterprises struggling to stay ahead of changing markets.
PaaS (Platform as a Service) provides developers with tools and resources to create and deploy applications onto cloud infrastructure without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. It allows for faster development and lower costs. PaaS is important because it speeds up software development and saves a lot of money. It is predicted to become mainstream and drive significant changes in the software industry as more applications are built and hosted in the cloud using PaaS platforms.
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The document discusses how companies can optimize their digital infrastructure through a harmonious arrangement of digital systems, similar to how instruments in a symphony orchestra work together to produce a cohesive work. It notes many companies still rely on outdated core backend systems from the 1990s that hamper their abilities to keep up with competitors. To fully leverage new technologies like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and APIs, companies require a holistic approach that brings all their digital capabilities together in a coordinated way. Only then can their various digital systems work in harmony to transform their businesses.
Most consumers are open to sharing, communicating and contributing
directly with manufacturers; indeed, this is rapidly becoming an
expectation. Brands have an open platform to do so through digital and
mobile channels and can no longer afford to be one step removed from
the consumer. The journey is just beginning, and it’s anyone’s game.
Learn about how cloud computing has accelerated IBM’s ability to innovate and do so in ways that improve how
IBM delivers services and support. In short, it has become a catalyst
for business transformation at IBM.
Responding to and recovering from sophisticated security attacksIBM
This document discusses four steps organizations can take to help protect themselves from sophisticated cyber attacks:
1. Prioritize business objectives and set a risk tolerance by determining what is most important to the security of the business.
2. Protect the organization with a proactive security plan by identifying vulnerable areas, types of threats, and areas where an attack could cause the greatest loss.
3. Prepare a response plan for when an attack does occur by learning from past incidents and ensuring the ability to detect, respond to, and recover from attacks.
4. Promote a culture of security awareness across the organization to help prevent attacks from being successful.
How Cloud computing can drive innovation and improve customer loyalty with comments from the Cloud Industry Forum and including hints and tips on how to get started.
Big data cloud cloud circle keynote_final laura colvine 8th november 2012IBM
This document discusses how organizations are using big data and cloud computing to gain insights and optimize operations. It provides examples of how forward-thinking organizations are (1) creating scalable and trusted systems to manage large amounts of data, (2) using data to optimize complex decisions and identify trends, and (3) acting on insights by improving outcomes and customer satisfaction. Specific cases highlight collaborating across healthcare systems in the cloud, using weather data to improve wind farm forecasts, reducing surgery hospitalizations through genetic data analysis, and improving transaction processing. The document argues convergence of data sources and cloud-based tools will further increase business optimization.
Presentation looking at future skills needed in the IT department if everything is outsourced to the cloud. Includes insights from IBM's CEO and CIO studies. The Future of the IT department whitepaper goes into details and models. Cloud Circle video featuring Mark Tomlinson walks you through presentation if needed.
IBM takes a holistic, risk-based approach to cloud security based on its IBM Security Framework. It has over 6,000 security engineers and 3,000 security patents. IBM addresses cloud security through governance, identity and access management, data protection, secure infrastructure development and maintenance, and physical security of data centers. The key is choosing the right cloud model and deployment with appropriate security controls to establish trust.
The document discusses how cloud computing will impact the roles and responsibilities of internal IT departments. It uses a component business model to analyze the functions of a typical IT department. It finds that many operational components will no longer be needed as IT services move to external cloud providers. However, strategic components around understanding business needs, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring cloud services continue to support business strategy will be more important. The IT department of the future will be smaller but still play an important role in aligning cloud services with business requirements.
IBM Partnering For A Smarter Planet Exploring The Role Of Ecosystems In Evo...IBM
Cloud computing is shifting the IT landscape and reshaping traditional market models by focusing on customer-centric services. This increased focus on customers is empowering them with more access to information and choice. As a result, customers now dictate new terms in their relationships with providers and have more control over how and when they access services. Some customers are forming "club clouds," hybrid cloud models where groups of customers bound by region or industry jointly procure cloud services to improve operations and reduce costs.
IBM Partnering For A Smarter Planet Exploring The Role Of Ecosystems In Evo...
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About the study
To understand current attitudes and activity in the Platform-as-a- Client Manages Vendor Manages in Cloud
Service space, IBM surveyed more than 1,500 IT decision makers
from 18 countries. We supplemented these responses with
qualitative interviews to gain a perspective on the level of adoption Figure 1: PaaS offers a high degree of standardization at the platform level
while still allowing organizations to differentiate via their applications.
and strategic relevance of this form of cloud computing.
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Who’s pursuing PaaS — and why
To better understand the actions and attitudes of those at the
forefront of PaaS adoption, we ranked survey respondents
according to the extent of PaaS adoption within their Experimenters Pioneers
enterprise and their reported understanding of its strategic
relevance to their organization. They were organized in four
33% 16%
groups (Figure 2):
PaaS
• Pioneers have adopted PaaS and see it as a way to drive adoption
innovation and improve the entire application lifecycle
across the enterprise. Observers Preparers
Experimenters are using PaaS and are taking a pragmatic
39% 12%
•
approach to future expansion.
• Preparers have bought into the idea of PaaS and are
preparing to act, but have not done so yet.
• Observers still have to be convinced of the value of PaaS and
Understand the strategic relevance of PaaS
have elected not to adopt at the moment.
Pioneering enterprises fully understand the PaaS opportunity,
embrace the concept and are assertively moving forward with Figure 2: A group of trailblazing companies see and understand the true
potential of PaaS.
their strategy to integrate it into their operations. They stand
out from a larger group of businesses that have adopted a more
Because of their early adopter mentality, Pioneers are
tentative stance. While some companies are hesitant to trust
predisposed to leveraging a cloud-based platform in pursuit of
their mission-critical applications, processes and data to the
business benefit. This propensity appears in their higher usage
cloud, Pioneers have gained confidence and are now
of both traditional outsourcing and public cloud services.
comfortable using PaaS.
Nearly half of Pioneers said they have used application
outsourcing, a rate 70 percent higher than the rest of the
respondents combined. Pioneers also use public cloud services
“…business users see the biggest value [from for standard and advanced applications at a greater rate: the
current and planned usage rate for Pioneers is three times
PaaS] because they are seeing applications higher for analytics and almost six times greater for public
developed more quickly; they are getting in cloud development environments. These numbers show that
front of customers quickly, getting feedback Pioneers clearly see the benefits of external collaboration with
IT vendors.
and driving the pace of innovation… I can’t
express enough how difficult this is to do in a
non-cloud environment.”
—GM, Software Developer, US
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Reaping the benefits of PaaS
In light of the fact that PaaS is still a relatively new concept,
the Pioneers’ actions raise an interesting question: what made
“PaaS can make the company more nimble and
them choose to embark on the PaaS journey? Their responses, cost-effective, with consistent performance and
summarized in Figure 3, are illuminating. faster roll-outs.”
Pioneers stand ready to reap a broad spectrum of benefits,
—VP IT, Utility, US
ranging from the most fundamental to the highly strategic.
The more strategic the benefit, the greater the distance
between the Pioneers and the rest of the respondents.
opportunity for preconfiguration and standardization as a great
The small differences in the perception of basic benefits are benefit of PaaS and look to repeatable and standardized best
not surprising. These are what cloud computing provides in practices as a way to achieve it.
general and are not specific to PaaS. Any cloud adopter might
expect to see gains like continuous application availability and Pioneers identify what takes place at the strategic end of the
a robust infrastructure that can help bring new applications spectrum as the most transformational and meaningful to the
online more efficiently. business outside of the development context. PaaS enables a
shift from development, deployment, production and
In contrast, the capabilities unique to PaaS, those that maintenance as discrete activities to a more holistic endeavor.
specifically strengthen development capabilities, are of It’s a change in focus from technical capability to what PaaS
particular interest to the Pioneers. For example, they see the allows the organization to do.
Benefits of PaaS Rest of Respondents Pioneers Delta
Experimenters + Preparers + Observers
Advanced Data management integration & analysis 27% 52% +25%
Integrate existing & future 26% 47% +21%
Leverage human expertise 29% 45% +16%
Standardized & repeatable 24% 41% +17%
Portability 27% 43% +16%
Integrated & optimized 20% 35% +15%
Efficiency 37% 51% +14%
Resiliency 35% 49% +14%
Simplified & automated 35% 46% +11%
Fundamental Availability 41% 46% +5%
Figure 3: As a group, Pioneers rank PaaS benefits — particularly more advanced capabilities — higher than other companies.
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Turning challenges into positive change Making PaaS pay off
Overarching concerns such as security and ROI take on unique Overall, the Pioneers are more focused on strategic gains than
importance in a cloud environment. Some organizations view on immediate ROI, and they view PaaS as a way to make
them as hurdles. Not so for the Pioneers. While they share the transformational changes. However, all the respondent
concerns, they address the issues head-on to get at the segments — including Pioneers — indicated a lower total cost
opportunities offered by PaaS adoption. They are able to move of ownership as the most significant potential benefit of PaaS
beyond the challenges and turn their attention to matters of while, at the same time, articulating concerns about achieving
quality, performance and innovation. expected cost savings. Although the relative importance varied,
these were both top potential benefits and concerns when
looking across different types of PaaS implementations, such as
application development lifecycle services and application
“The key concern comes back to security, because platform services. Observers tend to be worried about cost
now when you’re actually talking about a more than other respondents, signaling that they’re not yet
recognizing the strategic value of PaaS.
whole database being someplace else, if that
gets into the wrong hands...” Professional services consulting firm CLD Partners is an
example of a company that is making PaaS pay off, both through
—Head of IT, Insurance, Germany immediate ROI and strategic gains. When building applications
for its clients, the firm historically struggled with the
provisioning and management of systems. But PaaS offered a
Focusing on security path to a whole new way of developing software. With PaaS, the
All respondents, including Pioneers, are concerned about company can now establish new development and test
security. Across a number of the PaaS services — application environments, and authorize users in seconds — all from a
platform services, database-as-a-service and integration single, unified console. More importantly, CLD can use the
services — security ranked as one of the top three concerns. To applications and procedures it develops as a template, speeding
address this issue, the risks and responsibilities surrounding time-to-value for future projects.
PaaS need to be fully understood and communicated to the
rest of the enterprise. PaaS users need to be prepared to handle For CLD, the future is collaborative, web-enabled, PaaS-based
vendor-facing matters like the delineation of responsibilities development that breaks free of traditional limits, bringing the
and governance and data sovereignty issues. Where will the customer into the process. The organization envisions an
data be stored? What about tracking its creation and alteration environment where developers work side-by-side with customers,
throughout the lifecycle? Who is responsible for secure using simple browser-based tools to model and demonstrate
deletion? What about outages and service interruptions? How product features and ultimately turn them into fully functioning
is encryption and identity management handled? Addressing software. CLD is already finding that PaaS is helping them rein in
these questions before getting involved with a PaaS costs by using a streamlined development platform that simplifies
implementation can help mitigate security concerns. management and oversight.
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Achieving quality and performance automated and based on tested practices, patterns can help
Because they are the most advanced users, Pioneers see things reduce the risk of error and streamline development processes.
differently. They’ve generally overcome hesitations related to PaaS implementations that leverage this kind of embedded
security and return on their PaaS investment and are now most expertise provide organizations with an advantage in terms of
apprehensive about the performance and service quality of improving overall performance and service quality.
their PaaS implementations. Pioneers ranked quality assurance
and performance as their number one concern across What should you do?
application development lifecycle services, integration services A look at how the Pioneers are acting suggests specific steps to
and application platform services. However, this isn’t slowing consider when developing a PaaS strategy:
them down; their use of PaaS is accelerating — one quarter of
Pioneers said that they will be using public cloud development • Prioritize and pilot — It sounds basic, but start with a pilot
environments in the next twelve months. project, either deployed internally or through a cloud
provider. Choose a new or existing application best suited
for cloud development and production — one that is
complex enough to allow for both substantive learning and
“...folks are realizing that PaaS is important. benefits. Pioneers generally started with existing applications
[Often] PaaS is restricted to the developer like web and CRM and simple integration services, then
community. The trick is to expose [it] more advanced from there.
Transform application delivery to drive business improvement —
liberally inside the operation.”
•
Analyze and assess your current application environment
with scalability objectives and business innovation in mind.
—Large industrial company, US Use that knowledge to build a strategic roadmap for
progressively migrating applications to PaaS and eventually
transforming the entire application lifecycle — development,
As shown in Figure 3, Pioneers ranked a group of four best testing and operations — creating opportunities for business
practice-related benefits as more valuable than the rest of the improvement and greater market agility in key application
respondents (15-17 percent more). These were: standard, areas.
repeatable deployments, workload and application portability, • Harvest expertise — Capture and leverage knowledge to
leveraging human expertise, and integrated stacks of optimized unlock the power of PaaS to improve the way applications
middleware. This group of benefits is closely associated with are created, developed and managed. Work continuously to
the concept of patterns — leveraging both human expertise and identify best practices and expertise that can be used to
data to create a template for complex tasks common to many advantage. Harvest these as repeatable patterns to be
development efforts, such as application architecture, security leveraged across the cloud platform.
management or database configuration. Because they’re
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The Pioneers teach us some valuable lessons about the Contributors
adoption of PaaS. One of the most telling is that PaaS We would like to acknowledge the special contributions from
adoption is a process — a journey that is about much more our core team without whose gracious contribution of time
than technology and short-term ROI. It can touch and benefit and expertise this work would not have been completed.
the entire business. Even the Pioneers have not reached the
ultimate destination. They are learning as they go and finding Craig Sowell Barry Baker
new ways to use the power of the cloud. David Wong Bruce Otte
Don Gordon John Reiners
About the authors Stephen Rogers Caroline Day
Melissa Hennessey Julie Cohen Sloma
Greg Sherman, Global Offering Manager for IBM Brandie Brooks Steve Ollice
SmartCloud Application Services, has a wide variety of
About the IBM Center for Applied Insights
experience leading strategy and product development within
ibm.com/smarter/cai/value
and outside of IBM. Greg has held leadership positions in
The IBM Center for Applied Insights value introduces new ways
software development, systems architecture, and product
of thinking, working and leading. Through evidence-based
management. He can be reached at wgsherm@us.ibm.com.
research, the Center arms leaders with pragmatic guidance and
the case for change.
Don Boulia, Vice President of Strategy for Application &
Integration Middleware, leads strategy activities for IBM
private cloud initiatives. He can be reached at
djboulia@us.ibm.com.
David Jarvis, Senior Consultant at the IBM Center for Applied
Insights, specializes in fact-based research on emerging business
and strategic technology topics. In addition to his research
responsibilities, David teaches on business foresight and creative
problem solving. He can be reached at djarvis@us.ibm.com.
Kevin Thompson, Manager at the IBM Center for Applied
Insights, has nearly a decade of global strategy, research, brand
management, communications, and corporate citizenship
experience. In 2007, Kevin created the award-winning IBM
Corporate Service Corps program. He can be reached at
kbt@us.ibm.com.