PaaS-onomics: A CIO's Guide to Platform-as-a-Service
With tightening budgets, IT organizations typically focus on core applications that are mission critical to the business. As a result, they build a backlog of less critical IT projects or completely miss the opportunity to identify new or unmet needs of the business. These IT projects, also known as the long tail of IT, are important to the business but are often ignored, delayed, or poorly executed by IT organizations due to resource constraints or insufficient ROI.
According to Goldman Sachs in their July 2008 IT Sales Opportunity survey of 100 CIOs, less than 2% of them said cloud computing was a priority. In fact, it was ranked last in a series of initiatives.
In an increasingly competitive business environment and the emergence of cloud computing and its off shoot, platform- as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, these CIOs seem to be missing a bigger picture. That’s because PaaS offers businesses a very demonstrable ROI while also strengthening operations an organization.
Both these factors should have IT management to take a closer look at PaaS not only for its economic benefits, but as an opportunity to improve information management and processes across the enterprise. PaaS can add significant value to enterprise IT by enabling IT to better serve the business, operate at a strategic level with business divisions and rapidly deliver application solutions to business partners.
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