Company and Services The firm under analysis is a small IT consulting company in the United States. Cloud Computing has performed in the industry within 8 years, so that it has managed to collect its regular customer base. The company was founded by a group of enthusiastic entrepreneurs being still the chief executive officers. Their team designs and implements IT solutions for various organizations while the rest of the personnel receives the knowledge presented by few founders of the firm. The organization takes a top-down approach in human resource management. However, it is appropriate to make a general comment on the fact that knowledge management is a key driving force within the company. The chief executive team shares its knowledge with the rest of employees, so that a positive ethical environment is always present within this organization. Surprisingly, the enterprise did not recognize innovations much. That can be justified with the fact that the firm’s financial potential is evidently limited owing to the corporate size and revenues. The company was addressing its target audience, which could not be described as unexpectedly big. Recent changes in a sphere of information technologies have caused the firm to reconsider its entrepreneurial orientation. Cloud Computing technologies have entered the market of the United States. Therefore, the organization has decided to make an adequate response on thea trend and gain a new competitive advantage. The chief executive
In the following rhetorical analysis, I will analyze “Cloud Computing for Increased Business Value” by Abdulaziz Alijabre. Alijabre received his Doctorate degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Bridgeford and is currently a CEO of System security solution company. Alijabre has written numerous articles and “Cloud Computing for Increased Business Value” was written in January 2012. This article gives a perception of how using cloud computing can be beneficial and yet create obstacles in business. The
After reading many articles about Cloud Computing I saw the bright future for these types of cloud services. Aside from educating myself on this topic I feel that this could be beneficial to my fellow Computer Technology peers to address their client or employers cloud needs as well as people who are going to start a business and are looking at the options available to address their companies demands.
This case gives us a fundamental understanding of the concept of cloud computing and presents the advantages and issues of this IT infrastructure. This case gives a clear vision of the company’s current situation. Three main questions to consider
In statement, Alijabre writes “Cloud Computing can help business shift their focus to developing god business applications that will bring true business value.” To prove his point Alijabre, uses statistical data gathered from one of big leading providers in Cloud Services. “Although cloud computing has been recognized as a way to improve business, not all businesses are the same. So, is cloud computing for all businesses or is it more beneficial for a certain type of business with certain infrastructure already in place?” To make his argument, Alijabre uses Amazon Cloud Service to give us a better idea the use of cloud computing in business, and what can they do to improve it. Amazon has been one of the best providers of cloud services to individuals or to small businesses. “Also, it has more than 79 million active customer accounts around the world, along with around one and a half million active seller accounts.” Undoubtedly, Amazon is the leading source in providing cloud services. Amazon makes it easier for the consumers to access their data online, only thing needed
With numerous rewards and recognition under its label, it is now one of the most chosen CRM option in cloud computing. All the initiatives undertaken by it are sustainable, so the impact is hugely reduced on the planet as a whole.
However, research focusing on the adoption of cloud computing technology and its impact on business operation is limited. This trend may be explained by cloud computing being a relatively new field. Available research on the structures, processes, security measures surrounding the cloud services are still at an early stage.
In the following rhetorical analysis, I will analyze “Cloud Computing for Increased Business Value” by Abdulaziz Alijabre. Alijabre received his Doctorate degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Bridgeford and is currently a CEO of System security solution company. Alijabre has written numerous articles and “Cloud Computing for Increased Business Value” was written in January 2012. This article gives a perception of how using cloud computing can be beneficial and yet create obstacles in business. The author examines specific types of businesses that will benefit from
Mr. Pulier has been an entrepreneur, an author, and a philanthropist for many years. He has helped to found or fund companies including Digital Evolution, Akana, Desktone, to name a few. He has shown himself to be a leader in raising venture capital as well as helping political or charitable organizations. Mr. Eric Pulier speaks of technology’s growing influence on markets, trades, and governments. He believes himself to be lucky to have worked with many talented people. Mr. Pulier has history working with the cloud environment from his previous experience with Computer Sciences Corporation. He directed the planning and implementation of cloud offerings that help to provide IT to internal in addition to external sources. In more recent years
Therefore, this service has driven the company to hold competitive advantage over competitors. People are increasing the awareness of cloud service where everything can be done over the air. The company can create the value of its product by offering a place where community begins which increasing in customer lock-in strategy and generate more
Abstract. The Internet is permeating all aspects of our lives. This includes business and organizational endeavors as well as our personal lives. Businesses have become to depend on the Internet for their supply chain, advertising, and sales. E-commerce has experienced a tremendous growth in the last decade. Organizations are looking for new ways to leverage the Internet for business growth. Web Services is a growing technology in the Information Systems field. Data Management is also an ever-increasing endeavor for many organizations. The need for information is
The rapid development of cloud-based information and communication technology has helped small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to compete in the global market by reducing their entry and opportunity costs, and by supporting collaboration and innovation activities. For some existing SMEs, the process of creating this cloud business environment can be difficult and risky, because they lack sufficient human resources and lack sufficient control over Cloud infrastructures. Research also has shown that Cloud technologies have more impact on internationally orientated SME entrepreneurship, they will become more competitive in the global market by using Cloud
One of the main benefits of cloud computing is that the company’s resources are used in other different ways and reduce the overall costs. It eliminates the need for a physical hardware computer and replace it with an online storage or a software delivered over the internet. For instance, government agencies are shifting its government IT infrastructure into the cloud and launch mobile and e-services for citizens and businesses. As an example of cloud applications in some countries: In China a company named Wang Fu Jing has deployed cloud services to share supply chain information and implement B2B e-commerce with suppliers (Kshetri, N. ,2011). Another example is in South Korea: IBM’s cloud computing centre provides architecture, skills and pilot projects for banking, telecommunications, and IT hosting services (Kshetri, N. ,2011). An Indian bank named ICICI’s uses Zoho’s applications to develop services such as personalised insurance for diabetes (Kshetri, N. ,2011). Cloud computing offers many services to companies and government agencies; applications, operating systems and data are secured in the cloud environment rather than on a physical computer that is exposed to the risk of lost, stolen or hardware failure. Compared to client-based computing, cloud-based software is easier to install, maintain and upgrade. Furthermore, mobile applications based on cloud computing are becoming increasingly popular. Ericsson estimates that there
Though the actual history of cloud computing is not that old (the first business and consumer cloud computing services websites – salesforce.com and Google, were launched in 1999), the story of cloud computing is intertwined directly with the creation of the Internet and business, the answer to the unsolved question of how internet utilization can help improve business technology was and is cloud computation. Business technology history is both extensive and interesting, almost as extensive as business itself, but the invention of computers are most responsible for the influence on business technology. Cloud computing, like all other innovation was nurtured in the right environment to take off, as multi-tenant architectures, highly
The triumph of the public cloud- I ranked this trend first because I believe it is one of the most advanced and talked about topic in tech world in present year. This controversial topic is creating buzz all over the world. With advancement of technology, various tech companies have increased their effort to provide a free cloud storage system. Eric Knorr also listed this topic as a number one tech trend in his list. I believe this topic itself is one of the major challenges for public and private companies in term to provide certain product which not only is hard to maintain as well as complex and costly to generate. IT Companies can shift their fundamental competitive landscape by fabricating a new platform which will help to create and deliver values businesses have to its stakeholders (IBM, 2012). The cloud based storage can be used by companies to generate Enterprise data which can be used as various decision making and evaluation tools. (Stair and Reynolds, n.d.)
He had been following the market trends. Many of the big players have been transitioning to the cloud. His CEO mentioned that one of the board members with cloud expertise made a off the cuff remark, “when are you moving away from the relics? Cloud services are the evolving into the dominant force.” John patiently listened. What he could not share was that the board member examples were all new business. It is much easier to start new business than transition services for existing ones. There can be no slip up on continuity of service.