The document discusses cloud computing and the role of cloud brokers. It notes that cloud computing capacity is increasing exponentially, with computing resources located globally and accessible without ownership. A cloud broker manages relationships between cloud service providers and customers, enhancing services, security, and creating new services. Jamcracker is presented as a cloud broker that provides a unified management platform for internal and external cloud services across private and public clouds. Key benefits of cloud computing include reducing capital expenditures, optimizing resource utilization, and eliminating over-provisioning by scaling resources on demand.
The document discusses the opportunity for unified service delivery to SMB and SME markets. It notes that SMB IT spending is increasing faster than large enterprises and that 75% of North American SMBs subscribe to bundled services for lower costs and single sourcing. Unified service delivery provides customers a one-stop shop, providers increased stickiness and ARPU, and solution vendors an expanded distribution channel through bundling existing offerings.
An innovative unification of technology, business requirements and economic factors raise the spark for Cloud. Cloud Computing is all the rage in the IT industry. Yet,everyone seems to have a different definition of cloud computing.
The document discusses the importance of financial transparency for organizations considering moving IT services to the cloud. It argues that to determine which services can be moved cost-effectively, organizations need to understand the current costs of delivering specific services. A 5-step process is outlined to achieve financial transparency: 1) Inventory services and costs, 2) Build cost models, 3) Identify service utilization, 4) Provide user bills, 5) Analyze cost-benefit of cloud options. Financial transparency is presented as key to making informed decisions about cloud computing cost-effectiveness.
In this session you will learn how leveraging a Cloud Services Broker within a Hybrid IT environment, will be key to balancing the speed and flexibility that the Lines of Business (LOB)s require while maintaining compliance, security and control for Central IT and position CIO as leader to accelerate innovation for their Enterprise. Presented at the IT Summit Denver, Colorado on 16 March 2016
AppDirect Cloud Service Commerce 101 White PaperMadeline Titcomb
This document discusses the opportunity for service providers to offer cloud services to customers. It notes that while 74% of SMBs want cloud services from their primary provider, only 45% currently receive them. Offering cloud services allows providers to generate new recurring revenue streams, deepen customer relationships, and move up the value chain. However, historically providers faced barriers to entry like high costs and risks of developing marketplaces in-house. The document recommends using a cloud commerce platform to reduce barriers and make it easier for providers to offer cloud services.
IBM and Jamcracker have partnered to provide communication service providers with a cloud service brokerage solution that allows them to aggregate their own cloud services with those of third parties and offer unified delivery, management, billing and support for customers. The solution enables service providers to transform into cloud service providers and generate new revenue streams through cloud service delivery and management. It provides a single platform for provisioning, authentication, access management and support across various cloud offerings.
The document discusses cloud computing and the role of cloud brokers. It notes that cloud computing capacity is increasing exponentially, with computing resources located globally and accessible without ownership. A cloud broker manages relationships between cloud service providers and customers, enhancing services, security, and creating new services. Jamcracker is presented as a cloud broker that provides a unified management platform for internal and external cloud services across private and public clouds. Key benefits of cloud computing include reducing capital expenditures, optimizing resource utilization, and eliminating over-provisioning by scaling resources on demand.
The document discusses the opportunity for unified service delivery to SMB and SME markets. It notes that SMB IT spending is increasing faster than large enterprises and that 75% of North American SMBs subscribe to bundled services for lower costs and single sourcing. Unified service delivery provides customers a one-stop shop, providers increased stickiness and ARPU, and solution vendors an expanded distribution channel through bundling existing offerings.
An innovative unification of technology, business requirements and economic factors raise the spark for Cloud. Cloud Computing is all the rage in the IT industry. Yet,everyone seems to have a different definition of cloud computing.
The document discusses the importance of financial transparency for organizations considering moving IT services to the cloud. It argues that to determine which services can be moved cost-effectively, organizations need to understand the current costs of delivering specific services. A 5-step process is outlined to achieve financial transparency: 1) Inventory services and costs, 2) Build cost models, 3) Identify service utilization, 4) Provide user bills, 5) Analyze cost-benefit of cloud options. Financial transparency is presented as key to making informed decisions about cloud computing cost-effectiveness.
In this session you will learn how leveraging a Cloud Services Broker within a Hybrid IT environment, will be key to balancing the speed and flexibility that the Lines of Business (LOB)s require while maintaining compliance, security and control for Central IT and position CIO as leader to accelerate innovation for their Enterprise. Presented at the IT Summit Denver, Colorado on 16 March 2016
AppDirect Cloud Service Commerce 101 White PaperMadeline Titcomb
This document discusses the opportunity for service providers to offer cloud services to customers. It notes that while 74% of SMBs want cloud services from their primary provider, only 45% currently receive them. Offering cloud services allows providers to generate new recurring revenue streams, deepen customer relationships, and move up the value chain. However, historically providers faced barriers to entry like high costs and risks of developing marketplaces in-house. The document recommends using a cloud commerce platform to reduce barriers and make it easier for providers to offer cloud services.
IBM and Jamcracker have partnered to provide communication service providers with a cloud service brokerage solution that allows them to aggregate their own cloud services with those of third parties and offer unified delivery, management, billing and support for customers. The solution enables service providers to transform into cloud service providers and generate new revenue streams through cloud service delivery and management. It provides a single platform for provisioning, authentication, access management and support across various cloud offerings.
Cloud is one of that kind of digital services that is already here and materialized. Cloud services landscape is becoming more and more dense but still there is a chance for telecom players to take part in that field. Unfortunately, Communication Service Providers are late to come in and therefore it is not sufficient to put computing capacities and just sell them anymore. The economy of scale reached by current industry leaders can barely be beaten even by the largest CSPs. Therefore, some other smarter options should be found to compete with likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google. This ppt paper is just an effort to think of CSPs role in cloud services domain and any ideas and suggestions for further discussion is very welcome.
Thank you!
Quantifying the Business Value of Amazon Web Services (by IDC)Mahta Emrani
This paper by IDC highlights the value of cloud services, particularly AWS, in helping enterprises meet new customer expectations in a digital age. The insights outlined here are based on interviews with ten organizations from a cross section of industries using AWS.
Cloud computing technology has been a new buzzword in the IT industry and expecting a new horizon for coming world. It is a style of computing which is having dynamically scalable virtualized resources provided as a service over the Internet.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
Cloud banking allows banks to provide services to customers through cloud computing. It reduces costs for banks by eliminating the need to purchase and maintain expensive on-premise software and hardware. However, security concerns remain a challenge as banks are hesitant to move customer data to the cloud. A proposed solution involves hosting bank applications through a large company like Google. This would standardize updates, integration, and access across banks while keeping customer data on-premise. Widespread adoption of cloud banking could generate significant cost savings for banks and new revenue streams for cloud hosting providers.
The disruptions in 2017 will be an extension of trends that took off in 2016, albeit with higher adoption rate and stronger reinforcements. India’s e-commerce revenue is growing steadily to reach its $120 billion mark by 2020 and playing a big part to its progress would be cloud.
As banks adapt to market changes and new technology landscapes, cloud computing is playing a major role, providing alternative ways to access to core banking technology.
The future of online services (the cloud and personalization)TISEE
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Cloud services brokerages evaluating the business caseSteve Crawford
Jamcracker presentation discusses the Cloud Services Brokerage model, and key factors to consider in evaluating the opportunity. Use-cases include communications and IT providers / distributors as well as enterprise IT organizations.
Cloud Computing In Banking And Finance IndustryTyrone Systems
Cloud computing allows organizations to get up and running on an outsourced IT infrastructure without the time or cost investment. It also allows financial firms to start modernizing their technology with minimal investments.
1) Mobile data is transforming industries and blurring boundaries as more services move online. This represents a shift from voice to data and retail to wholesale models.
2) Operators are losing relevance and profits as they focus on infrastructure while app-based companies control the customer experience and capture more value. Operators must transform by connecting ecosystems and capturing value in connected systems.
3) The transformation involves 3 phases - expanding infrastructure, increasing penetration of mobile data and digital services, and changing business models to focus on ecosystems and capturing value. Big data will be key to creating new vertical platforms and sponsored data can help drive this transformation.
IBM is promoting the use of cloud computing to transform businesses. Cloud computing allows companies to optimize their IT infrastructure and improve business processes. IBM identifies three gaps that cloud addresses: providing customizable cloud platforms, enabling new opportunities, and driving five times more growth than traditional IT. IBM expects $7 billion in cloud revenue by 2015, with $3 billion coming from new areas of growth.
Enabling the transition from CSP to DSP with B/OSS transformationJames Crawshaw
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This document discusses how cloud computing has influenced e-commerce businesses. It defines cloud computing and notes that it allows organizations to conduct business without developing their own IT infrastructure. E-commerce gives flexibility to sell products online without a physical storefront. There are five elements involved in e-commerce activities in cloud computing: customers, suppliers, banks, e-commerce companies, and cloud service providers. Cloud computing benefits e-commerce by making infrastructure and software accessible in a pay-as-you-go model, reducing costs and allowing businesses to focus on their core operations.
This document discusses how cloud computing can benefit insurance companies by helping them reduce costs and increase agility. It provides an overview of cloud computing models and services. Insurance companies can use cloud computing to more efficiently scale resources for workloads that fluctuate, develop products faster, and reduce IT operating costs. Functions like development/testing, virtual desktops, collaboration, and analytics are good candidates to move to the cloud. The document examines how different parts of insurers' operations, such as the front office, back office, compliance, and investments, could utilize cloud applications and services.
Jan Lekszycki - Parallels - Jak zostać hosterem w dwa tygodnieWebhosting.pl
Parallels Automation is a cloud service delivery system that allows service providers to quickly launch and profitably deliver cloud services demanded by small businesses. It has been proven with hundreds of service providers. Parallels Automation allows service providers to deliver any cloud service, integrate both internal and external systems, and provide a complete cloud service delivery platform to increase revenue per user by offering more services.
2010.10.07. Le Cloud Computing pour les N...ouveaux - Loic Simon - Club Allia...Club Alliances
Collection de slides sur le Cloud Computing préparée pour l'animation d'un atelier de travail avec des partenaires [revendeurs, VAR, intégrateurs, éditeurs... de Best'Ware : Jargon, marché, usages, écosystème, risques, opportunités, étapes de démarrage... du Cloud Computing - Focus sur le rôle des revendeurs.
The document discusses the promises and realities of cloud computing. While the cloud promises cost savings, increased computing power, and automation, realities include security concerns, reliability issues, integration challenges, and costs for early adopters. As cloud technology evolves, both expectations and experiences of users are changing. The cloud remains a work in progress, with opportunities and risks that companies must navigate as adoption increases.
KMWorld - June 2015 - Why KM in the Cloud May Be Right for YouAlan Brooks
Deploying knowledge management (KM) in the cloud may have several benefits for organizations. It can help remove silos by allowing easy knowledge sharing across departments no matter location or device. Cloud KM also simplifies integration with other cloud systems and enables knowledge networks between organizations. Some financial benefits include faster time to value since access to cloud systems begins at implementation, reduced infrastructure costs since the provider handles maintenance and upgrades, and responsive capacity for seasonal volume changes. Cloud KM also provides access to experts who can help organizations maximize the cloud system's capabilities.
To prosper in this new environment insurance companies can look to the cloud, in conjunction with other technologies, to help drive reinvention of their business model to offer new services and create direct, multi-channel relationships with customers
Global IT BPM Market Perspective by Dolat Capital with special coverage on cl...Mohit Agarwal, CFA
Dolat Capital's Investment Banking Team releases its quarterly newsletter on IT-BPM Sector. Special coverage on Global Cloud Infrastructure and Services sector.
Cloud computing adoption in sap technologiessveldanda
Cloud computing is emerging as an exciting trend in the ICT and with this presentation we tried to explore opportunities of adopting Cloud computing in SAP Technologies
Cloud is one of that kind of digital services that is already here and materialized. Cloud services landscape is becoming more and more dense but still there is a chance for telecom players to take part in that field. Unfortunately, Communication Service Providers are late to come in and therefore it is not sufficient to put computing capacities and just sell them anymore. The economy of scale reached by current industry leaders can barely be beaten even by the largest CSPs. Therefore, some other smarter options should be found to compete with likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google. This ppt paper is just an effort to think of CSPs role in cloud services domain and any ideas and suggestions for further discussion is very welcome.
Thank you!
Quantifying the Business Value of Amazon Web Services (by IDC)Mahta Emrani
This paper by IDC highlights the value of cloud services, particularly AWS, in helping enterprises meet new customer expectations in a digital age. The insights outlined here are based on interviews with ten organizations from a cross section of industries using AWS.
Cloud computing technology has been a new buzzword in the IT industry and expecting a new horizon for coming world. It is a style of computing which is having dynamically scalable virtualized resources provided as a service over the Internet.
Cloud Computing for Banking
What does the future of cloud computing for banking look like—both in the near and long terms? Accenture sees cloud computing as an important step in the continuing industrialization of IT and thus capable of ultimately playing a key role in enabling high performance.
Cloud banking allows banks to provide services to customers through cloud computing. It reduces costs for banks by eliminating the need to purchase and maintain expensive on-premise software and hardware. However, security concerns remain a challenge as banks are hesitant to move customer data to the cloud. A proposed solution involves hosting bank applications through a large company like Google. This would standardize updates, integration, and access across banks while keeping customer data on-premise. Widespread adoption of cloud banking could generate significant cost savings for banks and new revenue streams for cloud hosting providers.
The disruptions in 2017 will be an extension of trends that took off in 2016, albeit with higher adoption rate and stronger reinforcements. India’s e-commerce revenue is growing steadily to reach its $120 billion mark by 2020 and playing a big part to its progress would be cloud.
As banks adapt to market changes and new technology landscapes, cloud computing is playing a major role, providing alternative ways to access to core banking technology.
The future of online services (the cloud and personalization)TISEE
The document discusses the future of cloud computing and online services. It notes that by 2012, 20% of businesses will own no IT assets as infrastructure moves to the cloud. The cloud is defined as scalable IT resources delivered over the internet. Key risks include security, availability, and control. The cloud is evolving to provide applications and services to both businesses and consumers from various providers in hybrid public-private models.
Cloud services brokerages evaluating the business caseSteve Crawford
Jamcracker presentation discusses the Cloud Services Brokerage model, and key factors to consider in evaluating the opportunity. Use-cases include communications and IT providers / distributors as well as enterprise IT organizations.
Cloud Computing In Banking And Finance IndustryTyrone Systems
Cloud computing allows organizations to get up and running on an outsourced IT infrastructure without the time or cost investment. It also allows financial firms to start modernizing their technology with minimal investments.
1) Mobile data is transforming industries and blurring boundaries as more services move online. This represents a shift from voice to data and retail to wholesale models.
2) Operators are losing relevance and profits as they focus on infrastructure while app-based companies control the customer experience and capture more value. Operators must transform by connecting ecosystems and capturing value in connected systems.
3) The transformation involves 3 phases - expanding infrastructure, increasing penetration of mobile data and digital services, and changing business models to focus on ecosystems and capturing value. Big data will be key to creating new vertical platforms and sponsored data can help drive this transformation.
IBM is promoting the use of cloud computing to transform businesses. Cloud computing allows companies to optimize their IT infrastructure and improve business processes. IBM identifies three gaps that cloud addresses: providing customizable cloud platforms, enabling new opportunities, and driving five times more growth than traditional IT. IBM expects $7 billion in cloud revenue by 2015, with $3 billion coming from new areas of growth.
Enabling the transition from CSP to DSP with B/OSS transformationJames Crawshaw
This panel discusses enabling the digital transformation of telecom companies from CSPs to DSPs through business support system modernization. Antiquated OSS and BSS systems, strict regulations, and a resistance to change are holding telecom companies back from being more successful in their digital transformation. The panel will discuss how telecom companies can overcome these challenges through processes like network virtualization, big data analytics, and advanced self-service applications to improve customer experience and compete with digital disruptors.
This document discusses how cloud computing has influenced e-commerce businesses. It defines cloud computing and notes that it allows organizations to conduct business without developing their own IT infrastructure. E-commerce gives flexibility to sell products online without a physical storefront. There are five elements involved in e-commerce activities in cloud computing: customers, suppliers, banks, e-commerce companies, and cloud service providers. Cloud computing benefits e-commerce by making infrastructure and software accessible in a pay-as-you-go model, reducing costs and allowing businesses to focus on their core operations.
This document discusses how cloud computing can benefit insurance companies by helping them reduce costs and increase agility. It provides an overview of cloud computing models and services. Insurance companies can use cloud computing to more efficiently scale resources for workloads that fluctuate, develop products faster, and reduce IT operating costs. Functions like development/testing, virtual desktops, collaboration, and analytics are good candidates to move to the cloud. The document examines how different parts of insurers' operations, such as the front office, back office, compliance, and investments, could utilize cloud applications and services.
Jan Lekszycki - Parallels - Jak zostać hosterem w dwa tygodnieWebhosting.pl
Parallels Automation is a cloud service delivery system that allows service providers to quickly launch and profitably deliver cloud services demanded by small businesses. It has been proven with hundreds of service providers. Parallels Automation allows service providers to deliver any cloud service, integrate both internal and external systems, and provide a complete cloud service delivery platform to increase revenue per user by offering more services.
2010.10.07. Le Cloud Computing pour les N...ouveaux - Loic Simon - Club Allia...Club Alliances
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KMWorld - June 2015 - Why KM in the Cloud May Be Right for YouAlan Brooks
Deploying knowledge management (KM) in the cloud may have several benefits for organizations. It can help remove silos by allowing easy knowledge sharing across departments no matter location or device. Cloud KM also simplifies integration with other cloud systems and enables knowledge networks between organizations. Some financial benefits include faster time to value since access to cloud systems begins at implementation, reduced infrastructure costs since the provider handles maintenance and upgrades, and responsive capacity for seasonal volume changes. Cloud KM also provides access to experts who can help organizations maximize the cloud system's capabilities.
To prosper in this new environment insurance companies can look to the cloud, in conjunction with other technologies, to help drive reinvention of their business model to offer new services and create direct, multi-channel relationships with customers
Global IT BPM Market Perspective by Dolat Capital with special coverage on cl...Mohit Agarwal, CFA
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2011.02. Ecosystème SaaS et Cloud 2011 - Enjeux et Perspectives - Point de Vu...Club Alliances
Collection de slides préparés à l'occasion du 6ème Forum SaaS et Cloud IBM co-organisé par les animateurs du Club Alliances [Loic Simon, Thierry Bayon...]. Les slides ont été exploités dans le cadre des sessions plénières et on trait à l'évolution des l'écosystème SaaS et Cloud et aux perspectives et enjeux auquel il fait face.
Free Gartner Report: Aligning Supply and Demand for IT Services
Cloud computing is transforming how IT manages costs and standards, but its impact extends into how IT itself is managed as a business. Public cloud computing puts pressure on the entire IT cost structure to become wiser and more efficient about balancing the supply and demand for IT services.
While cloud commoditization is driving down prices, IT is forced to manage resulting increases in consumption. The report recommends steps CIOs should take to improve the maturity of their approach to IT service management, installing:
• Benchmarking and chargeback to manage demand for cloud services
• Expand their strategic vendor management and IT procurement practices
• Become a broker of services, including external cloud computing.
Consider using IT cost transparency improvement as a cultural change agent to transform the IT organization from a focus on “speed and quality” to one of “IT cost and business value”.
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- CIOs are facing mounting pressure to do more with less as IT spending decreases and more technology spending occurs outside the IT department.
- Unified Computing combines outsourcing managed services with cloud computing to provide IT departments agility and lower costs while allowing them to become strategic enablers of the business.
- This approach provides all the benefits of cloud infrastructure alongside application skills and delivery from a large systems integrator. Companies like UEFA have adopted this model to dynamically scale their systems and lower costs.
Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital AgeCapgemini
The Digital Transformation Institute has launched its latest research report titled “Faster, Better, Smarter: Rebooting IT Infrastructure for the Digital Age.” The report highlights why organizations need robust and seamless IT infrastructure that keeps pace with evolving market and technology demands. IT infrastructure has always been known as a “keeping the lights on” function but now it has evolved into a core catalyst of Digital Transformation. However, as a function, IT infrastructure is yet to undergo a core transformation. The report discusses why a reboot is critical.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Enterprise IT as a Service: Empowering the Digital Experi...Amazon Web Services
Join Broadspectrum as they share how they achieve their business goals using a cloud-first IT strategy and AWS for "as a Service" deployments. To support new customer projects, Broadspectrum frequently needs to set up new sites or offices. This often requires setting up infrastructure for a specific site for only the duration of the project. Learn how Broadspectrum leverages AWS and Wipro's Boundary Less Data Center Solution to enable on-demand provisioning of "site-in-a-box." Gard Little, analyst from IDC, Stephen Orban, AWS Head of Enterprise Strategy, and Ramesh Nagarajan, SVP of Integrated Services at Wipro, join the discussion. Session sponsored by Wipro.
Steve Mills - Dispelling the Vapor Around Cloud ComputingMauricio Godoy
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Outsourcing Business to Cloud Computing Services: Opportunities and Challengeswhite paper
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CLOUDFX: Addressing Challenges in Cloud Migration and Paving the Way for IT T...Nicholas Yap
1. The document discusses the challenges that organizations face when migrating to the cloud, such as a lack of support and skills to navigate the transformation.
2. It introduces CloudFX as a company that addresses these challenges through offerings like Cloud Select, a cloud service automation and management platform.
3. CloudFX takes a three-stage approach to IT transformation that provides a measurable, phased transition to cloud services and aims to deliver business value and competitive advantage for customers.
Save to in invest: in challenging economic times, Managed services is the way...Mahmoud Dasser
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- Save to in invest: in challenging economic times, Managed services is the way to go!
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Cloud computing services cover a vast range of options now, from the basics of storage, networking, and processing power through to natural language processing and artificial intelligence as well as standard office applications.
Frank Gens - Clouds and Beyond: Positioning for the Next 20 Years in Enterpri...innoforum09
The document discusses cloud computing services and their adoption by enterprises. It defines cloud services as shared services accessible over the internet. While concerns around security and control remain challenges, cloud services offer benefits like lower costs, flexibility, and access to latest functionality. The document predicts that cloud adoption will grow rapidly in coming years, with cloud spending increasing from 4% to 9% of IT budgets by 2012. It advises CIOs to take a portfolio approach to cloud and traditional IT options.
This document discusses cloud computing, including its evolution and impact. It begins by defining cloud computing and identifying its three main service models. Next, it examines the growth of cloud computing and provides examples of companies using cloud services. It then explores the history of computing-as-a-service and how cloud computing emerged. The document also outlines the benefits cloud computing provides businesses, such as flexibility, security, and cost savings. Finally, it discusses how cloud computing is changing businesses and enabling innovation.
Enterprises that are embracing cloud computing are interested in driving fundamental changes in their business so they can compete in the future. IT transformation, enabled by cloud adoption, is a key component of this future success—from tighter alignment with business unit stakeholders to increased agility and pace of innovation. In this session, we explore the potential for transformation that comes with cloud adoption and discuss how some of the world’s leading enterprises were able to transform. We also explore organizational and technology best practices that you can implement to support transformation in your organization.
Cloud computing is changing how businesses operate by providing power, flexibility and cost savings. It delivers computing resources like software, storage and infrastructure over the internet on an as-needed basis. There are three main types of cloud computing models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). IaaS provides virtualized computing resources, PaaS provides development tools and platforms, and SaaS provides applications delivered over the internet. Major cloud providers include Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Google who offer these cloud services to businesses.
This document discusses green cloud computing and the need to develop optimized algorithms and applications to improve energy efficiency. It notes that while cloud computing provides economic benefits through shared infrastructure, the growing demand has increased energy consumption and carbon emissions. The document examines various technologies that enable green computing in clouds, such as virtualization, and proposes a green cloud architecture framework to improve efficiency from both user and provider perspectives. It stresses the importance of developing optimized algorithms and applications to minimize resource usage and route data to lower-cost energy regions.
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3. We’re Not in Kansas Anymore Multienterprise B2B and e-procurement are morphing one into the other Electronic invoicing is one of the main morphing agents and is growing massively, especially in Europe and South America There much more than buying and selling in Multienterprise B2B Multienterprise processes are more and more pushed in the cloud 2
4. Gartner defines cloud computing as "a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided 'as a service' to customers using Internet technologies". Five attributes that support outcomes Consumer concerns are abstracted from provider concerns through service interfaces. Service-Based 1 Services scale on-demand to add or remove resources as needed. Scalable and Elastic 2 Services share a pool of resources to build economies of scale. 3 Shared Services are tracked with usage metrics to enable multiple payment models. 4 Metered by Use Services are delivered through use of Internet identifiers, formats and protocols. Internet Technologies 5 Gartner's Definition of Cloud Computing and the Critical Attributes of Cloud Services
15. GXS merges with Inovis, acquires RollStreamAlso see: "Market Share: Application Infrastructure and Middleware Software, Worldwide, 2009" G00174854
16. Your B2B Infrastructure* Cloud Provider(application: HR, sales automation, payroll) Customer, Order Master Data, HR & Payroll data Integration as a Servicefor Cloud/SaaS (API) Integration Stand-alone B2B Gateway Software or B2B-enabled Enterprise Service Bus Suppliers(application: order entry) Orders, Invoices Orders, ASNs Customers(application: procurement) Payment Instructions Managed File Transfer Software or MFTaaS(Integration as a Service) Integration as a Service combined with B2B Integration Outsourcing Bank(application: cash management) * Ok, it's likely that your B2B integration infrastructure is more complicated than this
17. Strategic Planning Assumption In 2015, over 50% of integration projects will address a combination of internal (A2A), traditional e-commerce (B2B), managed file transfer (MFT) and SaaS/cloud services integration requirements versus less than 10% today.
18. E-Invoicing: A Definition BILL TO: E-invoicing is the interchange and storage of legally valid invoices in electronic format only between trading partners.
19. Did You Know That … Payments for goods and services account for about 30% of the gross domestic product of most countries Several governments in Europe (and Latin America) mandate the use of e-invoicing for government agencies More are likely to follow in the next year or two The way you do e-invoicing does not depend only on where your company has its headquarters There are strong dependencies on the countries you receive e-invoices from and send e-invoices to
20. Reasons for Doing E-Invoicing Invoice printing and scanning just does not provide enough savings to make a difference Current case studies indicate that you can quantify e-invoicing savings in many ways The processing cost per invoice is less than €10 The total savings due to reduced number of resources and computing power (60% to 80%compared with paper invoice processing) The percentage of a medium to large company's turnover (around 1%)
21. Strategic Planning Assumption By 2012, at least 20% of all invoices exchanged in Europe will be electronic, up from about 3% in 2009. It is only a matter of time before e-invoicing will be a mandatory requirement, wherever you are, as a supplier or a seller.
22. Other Types of B2B Integration Integration as a Service Used for traditional E-Commerce and Cloud computing Managed File Transfer as a service The ‘new’ category of integration as a service B2B Integration Ousourcing For companies that don’t want to do B2B projects 12
40. Gartner Reference Architecture for Operational Community Management Collaboration Portal Support, Dispute Resolution Notifications,Communications Social Networking E-Mail, Instant Messaging Question: Do you still manage many of these CM tasks today simply using spreadsheets and e-mail? Member/ConnectionProvisioning andTesting Compliance andOperationsMonitoring Campaign/ProgramLife Cycle Management Member/ConnectionProfiles PortfolioManagement SLA and PolicyEnforcement Configuration andSecurity Campaign/ProgramWorkflow Usage Meteringand Billing Connection andData Testing Policies andContract Management Data Validation Campaign/ProgramTracking and Reports Certification,Operational Analytics Certification Community Management Master DataOrganizations, Users, Contracts, Certificates, MAPs, SLAs, Policies B2B Infrastructure
During the past 15 years, a continuing trend toward IT industrialization has grown in popularity. IT services delivered via hardware, software and people are becoming repeatable and usable by a wide range of customers and service providers. This is partly because of the commoditization and standardization of technologies, virtualization and the rise of service-oriented software architectures, and (most importantly) the dramatic growth in popularity/use of the Internet and the Web. These things, taken together, constitute the basis of a discontinuity that amounts to a new opportunity to shape the relationship between those who use IT services and those who sell them. The discontinuity implies that the ability to deliver specialized services in IT can now be paired with the ability to deliver those services in an industrialized and pervasive way. The reality of this implication is that users of IT-related services can focus on what the services provide them, rather than how the services are implemented or hosted. Just as utility companies sell power to subscribers, and telephone companies sell voice and data services, IT services (such as network security management, data center hosting or even departmental billing) can now be easily delivered as a contractual service. The buying decision then shifts from buying products that enable the delivery of some function (like billing) toward contracting, with someone else delivering those functions. This isn't new, but it does represent a different model from the license-based, on-premises models that have dominated the IT industry for so long. Names for this type of operation have come into vogue at different times. Utility computing, SaaS, application service providers — all have their places in the pantheon of industrialized delivery models. However, none has garnered widespread acceptance as the central theme for how any and all IT-related services can be delivered globally.
There is plenty of evidence to support the increase in importance of B2B. Companies are implementing ever more B2B projects that involve ever larger B2B trading communities — some private ones have thousands of trading partners and execute over a billion transactions a year. Between various forms of B2B integration software and integration services, companies will spend about $3 billion in 2010, and that spending, on average across all forms of B2B integration solutions, will increase at 9% CAGR over the next five years. The CAGR for some categories of B2B, such as integration as a service (IaaS) for cloud scenarios, is 25%.After nearly 10 years of largely ignoring B2B, the IT megavendors, such as IBM and SAP, have begun moving decisively to strengthen their B2B offerings and more clearly articulate a B2B strategy. B2B providers themselves, such as GXS and Liaison, continue to actively invest and refine their strategies to better serve their customers and effectively capitalize on the growing B2B opportunity. Companies should expect substantial M&A activity in the B2B vendor landscape. Because B2B is increasingly important, acquisitions are likely to be from acquiring companies that are either consolidating the B2B market or plugging a significant gap in their own B2B portfolio. This is a positive move, since the acquiring company will most likely have good intentions regarding continued support for existing products, services and customers. However, this will sometimes impact integration product and service road maps.
Authors create "composite characters" to depict someone that matches their (stereotypical) perception of someone from a particular ethnicity, lifestyle or other dimension. Here, we have created a "composite B2B infrastructure" to depict our perception of an IT user company with a stereotypical B2B infrastructure to address a variety of B2B integration problems. While this IT user is fiction, this combination of B2B problems to be solved and types of solutions used to address them is quite common. B2B problems include: Automating the procure-to-pay process with suppliers: Often addressed via B2B integration software (as illustrated), sometimes via VAN services plus translation software, or wholly by B2B integration outsourcing. Automating the order-to-cash process: Same options as for supplier integration, but having to support different types of connections for each customer makes B2B integration outsourcing a bit more attractive. Integration cloud-based functionality with on-premises applications: Again, either B2B software or services will work, but many cloud services users are comfortable also using IaaS. Automating the payment process: Often some form of B2B software, typically MFT (well entrenched in financial services), but MFTaaS (a form of integration as a service) is a viable new option.While B2B requirements vary across industries and regions, the general approach to solving B2B integration remains the same: You can typically either use B2B software or services — it's an IT outsourcing decision.
The interchange does not use or require paper-based invoices. E-invoices have legal validity, and can be used to prove compliance or serve as tax originals. This presentation is about e-invoicing in general. Most considerations apply whether you are sending e-invoices or receiving them, unless otherwise stated. Operationally: The seller must ensure that the invoice contains the correct data and that it is authentic. The buyer must verify the authenticity of the invoice, match it to goods or services received, and execute payment. The seller and the buyer (or a third party on their behalf) must store the readable and authentic (this comes with a lot of added strong security) invoice for a period of time, and make it available to a tax authority on request.
Payments for goods and services account for about 30% of the gross domestic product of most countries; several countries implement a value-added tax (VAT) over those payments (for goods and services): We are talking about a lot of money, made up of a lot of invoices. With good reason, government tax authorities have a strong interest in ensuring that companies exchange and store invoices in a secure and reliable way to prevent taxation errors, and to minimize fraud. Thus, tax authorities typically rely heavily on the invoice to establish the commercial and tax implications of a specific transaction.E-invoicing affects internal business processes, mutual agreements among business partners, financial transactions, taxes and legal compliance, and a lot of the IT infrastructure that supports all that. The business processes to get invoices paid change slightly by company (and sometimes within a specific company, depending on trading-partner agreements, business practices in different parts of the world, or the type of invoice); (tax) laws and security norms (for example, e-signatures and how advanced/qualified they are, or the rules for issuing them or building certificates). On the other hand, for many buyer-supplier communities, the continued prevalence of paper-based or fax-based invoices and the inertia it has produced has severely limited the ability to leverage e-invoices to automate the purchase-order-to-invoice reconciliation processes and the rest of the payment process.
So far in this presentation, we have identified several arguments against using e-invoicing, and we have covered, in some detail, the complexities associated with it. However, there are excellent reasons that prompt companies to face these complexities, deal with them and invest in e-invoicing.Most of the e-invoice savings are due to more-streamlined payment processes, taking humans out of the picture as much as possible, and providing the whole set of data that is needed to reconcile the invoice with the goods or services received (typically, by integration with an ERP package). The vast majority of e-invoicing implementers that have done invoice printing and scanning have found that it is not enough and have moved to something else. If you need to send e-invoices to the governments in Europe or the supply chain masters who mandated (or will shortly mandate) e-invoices, then printing and scanning will be of little use.Whichever way you decide to demonstrate savings, the clear indication from case studies is that the savings for companies that have to deal with a large volume of invoices (more than 100 per day, inbound and outbound) are significant (see "Supplier E-Invoicing Networks," G00163578), because of the economies of scale obtained by aligning technical, business and compliance strategies.
An inevitable consequence of the rapid evolution of IT is that companies frequently implement hybrid combinations of legacy, contemporary and innovative business functionality. For B2B projects, this may mean running a combination of legacy EDI, contemporary AS2 or RosettaNet, and innovative cloud APIs. On the surface, such diversity seems haphazard, and calls into doubt the durability and viability of different B2B technologies and standards, as well as the IT providers who deliver them. And, in fact, the high rate of IT evolution is disruptive to B2B technology and the B2B vendor landscape, but this doesn't mean that there is no order to how these will evolve. Looking at B2B through the lens of consumption of integration functionality, we have outlined the evolution of B2B integration technology, and some key categories of B2B providers and IT outsourcing. Integration technology itself has evolved from EDI (a simple B2B transaction mapping technology) to business process networks (preconfigured integration of multienterprise processes for pre-plumbed communities of companies using those processes). EDI VANs have already evolved into integration service providers, and those that endure will be acquired to enable or evolve directly into cloud services brokerages. IT outsourcing related to B2B projects has evolved from custom managed service projects to business process utilities — a form of cloud-enabled business process outsourcing that can be applied to specific multienterprise processes. All of these changes will take many years, and in the meantime, companies will — by necessity — continue to consume B2B integration functionality for various projects along the spectrum of evolving B2B technology, providers and sourcing.
In human civilization, the concept of brokerage (or intermediation) is a well-established practice. In the world of IT, this is less widely spread, but still commonplace. As cloud computing grows, the need for more intermediation must be met by a corresponding group of markets that establish intermediation as a critical line of business. Cloud services brokerage leverages the teachings of many different industries in using brokerage to facilitate enhanced services, insurance protection, travel arrangements, peer references, and aggregation of services. Financial services and travel lead the way in unscientific samplings of our clients as the most prevalent industries that use brokerage to facilitate complex supplier/consumer relationships. And while utilities and retail lag behind, the reality still remains that these industries use brokerage in supply chain operations on a daily basis. Cloud services brokerage (CSB) is a third party (intermediary) that works on behalf of the consumer of one or more cloud services to add value to the service(s) being consumed. The benefits of implementing cloud services using CSB include value-added services (e.g., consistent billing, security), the CSB is responsible for federating diverse cloud services and APIs, and the CSB can offer normalized governance. Challenges include the CSB "getting in the way" of direct relationships with providers, potential CSB "middle-man" costs and the potential impact of confusion or disruption associated with the relatively immature CSB market.
Why do companies use different approaches for B2B integration? Because different approaches to B2B solve different kinds of integration problems — for example, multistep process integration (such as vendor-managed inventory) versus synchronizing master data (such as customer). Many B2B standards aren't very standard — for example, in the petroleum industry, you will likely use PDIX, and in high-tech manufacturing, RosettaNet. Different processes are supported by different B2B standards — for example, SWIFT for electronic payments and Commerce XML for procurement. Different technologies solve different problems — for example, FTP or AS2 for smaller files such as e-commerce transactions, and MFT for larger files such as engineering documents and lab images. Different IT ecosystems use different approaches – for example, cloud providers often use the REST-based APIs to expose services, while e-commerce providers still typically use FTP/EDI. Diversity is fueled by differences in control — for example, a manufacturer has more leverage over its suppliers than its customers. Each company has a different level of IT maturity — for example, in one company, EDI may be well-entrenched, while another uses Web services. Most midsize to large companies must support multiple approaches to B2B, so it is natural to implement one B2B infrastructure to support all B2B projects. Particularly if you are consolidating existing B2B infrastructure, this could take years and, in some cases, full consolidation may not even be practical. Vendors are responding by expanding their solutions to address different needs — e.g., GXS adding MFT to its IaaS capabilities, and IBM acquiring Cast Iron for cloud and Sterling Commerce for e-commerce integration — so it's possible that your existing provider offers new approaches to B2B. Benefits of consolidation include lower B2B project costs (from economies of scale), more consistency, better provisioning tools, as well as improved security, process visibility and governance.