Software-As-A-Service Economics

Cloud computing has become an important topic to research because of the value it can provide to the business. In this article, the researcher examined how Business Intelligence (BI) can be offered to the business over the Internet as a solution. BI environments, however, require a large capital layout to implement and support the large volumes of data that needs to be analysed to identify trends. It also requires enormous processing power which places pressure on the business resources. The goal of this article is to show how BI will be offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to the business. The BI SaaS solution will allow companies to reduce cost of having a BI solution and also having access to the latest software which will give the business an edge on their competition. By making use of a literature review the researcher were able gather and present evidence to support the value that the BI SaaS solution will add to the business and how such a BI SaaS solution will look like. As part of this research paper the researcher will also identify the challenges that the business will face when making us a BI SaaS solution.

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Software-Defined Cloud Infrastructure

Handbook of Research on Cloud and Fog Computing Infrastructures for Data Science - Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5972-6.ch006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 108-123

Author(s):

R. Mohanasundaram ◽

A. Jayanthiladevi ◽

Keerthana G.

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

General Population ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Software As A Service ◽

The Internet ◽

Cloud Infrastructure ◽

Infrastructure As A Service ◽

Platform As A Service ◽

The World

Cloud computing suggests that the applications conveyed as services over the internet and frameworks programming in the server that give various services and offers in “pay as you go” trend which means pay only for what you use. The information and services are managed as software as a service (SaaS). Some sellers utilize terms, for example, IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service). The purpose of cloud computing is quickly expanding in everyday life. Today the use of cloud computing is widespread to the point that it is being utilized even in the medicinal services industry. As the development of cloud computing in healthcare is happening at a fast rate, we can expect a noteworthy piece of the healthcare administrations to move onto the Cloud and along these lines more focus is laid on giving cost-effective and efficient services to the general population all around the world. Cloud these days are turning into the new building pieces of significant organizations spread the world over. They offer assistance in servicing to offer different frameworks. Cloud computing has enhanced its technique and technologies in a better way to provide better services. Existing e-healthcare has many difficulties from advancement to usage. In this chapter, the authors discuss how cloud computing is utilized and the services provided by the Cloud and their models and its infrastructure.

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A Proposed Software as a Service (SaaS) Toolkit for Cloud Multi- Tenancy

Computer Engineering and Applications Journal ◽

10.18495/comengapp.v5i2.170 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 37-46

Author(s):

Mohamed Osman Imam ◽

Adil Yousif ◽

Mohammed Bakri Bashir

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Programming Languages ◽

Virtual Machine ◽

Low Cost ◽

General Term ◽

Software As A Service ◽

Java Virtual Machine ◽

The Internet ◽

Operational Costs

Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. It is a construct that allows you to access applications that actually reside at locations other than your computer or other Internet-connected devices. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software delivery model in which software resources are accessed remotely by users over the internet. Enterprises prefer using SaaS because of its low cost. SaaS requires sharing of application servers among multiple tenants for low operational costs. Several SaaS Toolkits are available and used to develop cloud SaaS applications. However, most of these Toolkits are very complex. This paper aims to build a new simple and easy SaaS Toolkit to develop SaaS applications and to avoid the difficulties and complexity in the current cloud SaaS Toolkits. The proposed Toolkit is based on java virtual machine and the popular web programming languages HTML and PHP. To evaluate the proposed Toolkit an empirical study has been conducted. The result of the empirical study revealed that the proposed Toolkit outperforms the current Toolkits in terms of complexity, understandability and learnability.

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Cloud Computing Economics: Democratization And Monetization Of Services

Journal of Business & Economics Research (JBER) ◽

10.19030/jber.v7i6.2301 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 7 (6) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Harry Katzan, Jr.

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Font Size ◽

Economic Perspective ◽

Delivery Vehicle ◽

Web Browser ◽

Business Applications ◽

Single Function ◽

Computer Services ◽

The Subject ◽

Software Services

Cloud computing is a modality for providing computer services via the Internet, by incorporating ubiquitous access through a web browser for the execution of single-function applications, such as those available as office suites, and comprehensive enterprise line-of-business applications pieced together from components residing in varying Internet locations.  This paper covers the democratization and monetization of software services and uses cloud computing as the primary delivery vehicle.  Cloud computing represents a contextual shift in how computers are provisioned and accessed.  There is opportunity and value in cloud computing for providers, ISVs, and customers.  The subject is covered from an economic perspective for each of the groups.

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Cloud Computing Impelementation Using Model Roadmap for Cloud Computing Adoption (ROCCA) on IT Consultant Industry

ComTech Computer Mathematics and Engineering Applications ◽

10.21512/comtech.v8i3.3887 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 145 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Panji Arief Perdana ◽

Suharjito Suharjito

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Swot Analysis ◽

Software As A Service ◽

The Internet ◽

Private Cloud ◽

Cloud Computing Adoption ◽

Analysis Design ◽

Adoption Model ◽

Computing Models

The purpose of this research was to build cloud computing referring to Roadmap for Cloud Computing Adoption (ROCCA) model so that the best strategy could be implemented in PT Matrica Consulting Service. The implementation of cloud computing had five stages modifications ROCCA adoption model. Those stages were analysis, design, adoption, migration, and management. Data were taken from distributing questionnaires and conducted interviews with R&D Manager and analyzed using SWOT analysis. The result is the implementation of cloud computing models, and implementation of private cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) needs to be modified so it can be implemented properly. The implementation canincrease the performance PT Matrica Consulting Service based on the characteristics of the cloud which is flexible and secure to be accessed as long as it is connected to the Internet and maintained properly.

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Cloud Computing Issues, Challenges, and Needs: A Survey

JOIV International Journal on Informatics Visualization ◽

10.30630/joiv.5.3.671 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 298

Author(s):

Mohammad Aljanabi ◽

Shams N. Abd-Alwahab ◽

RD Rohmat Saedudin ◽

Hind Raad Ebraheem ◽

- Defni ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Cloud Security ◽

Software As A Service ◽

The Internet ◽

Security Requirement ◽

Infrastructure As A Service ◽

Security Issues ◽

Secondary Usage ◽

Personal Devices ◽

Gain Access

Cloud computing represents a kind of computing that is based on the sharing of computing resources instead of possessing personal devices or local servers for handling several applications and tasks. This kind of computing includes three distinguished kinds of services provided remotely for clients that can be accessed by using the Internet. Typically, clients work on paying annual or monthly service fees for suppliers, in order to gain access to systems that work on delivering infrastructure as a service, platforms as a service, and software as a service for any subscriber. In this paper, the usefulness and the abuse of the cloud computing are briefly discussed and presented by highlighting the influences of cloud computing in different areas. Moreover, this paper also presents the kinds and services of cloud. In addition, the security issues that cover the cloud security solution requirements, and the cloud security issues, which is one of the biggest issues in recent years in cloud computing were presented in this paper. The security requirement that needs by the cloud computing covers privacy, lack of user control, unauthorized secondary usage, and finally data proliferation and data flow. Meanwhile, the security issues cover including ownership of device, the trust issue and legel aspects. To overcome the security issues, this paper also presents the solution at the end of this paper.

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Towards Improving the Testability of Cloud Application Services

Cloud Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6539-2.ch089 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 1915-1932

Author(s):

Tariq M. King ◽

Annaji S. Ganti ◽

David Froslie

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Specific Problem ◽

The Internet ◽

Cloud Application ◽

Power Storage ◽

Controllability And Observability ◽

Cloud Applications ◽

Software Services

In cloud computing, applications are hosted, deployed, and delivered as services over the Internet. New cloud application services can be developed by tailoring existing ones, while hiding the complexity of the underlying implementation. Cloud applications may be able to adapt to changes in their environment, which should be secure and reliable. The infrastructure on which cloud applications are built is characterized by power, storage, and virtualization. But how does all of this affect the ability to adequately test cloud applications? This chapter investigates the testability of cloud application services. It focuses on the specific problem of reduced controllability and observability of software services hosted in the cloud, and proposes a novel solution referred to as Test Support as-a-Service (TSaaS). A prototype of TSaaS is also presented, and is used to discuss the feasibility, challenges, and benefits of the approach.

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Software-Defined Cloud Infrastructure

Research Anthology on Architectures, Frameworks, and Integration Strategies for Distributed and Cloud Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-5339-8.ch018 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 412-428

Author(s):

R. Mohanasundaram ◽

A. Jayanthiladevi ◽

Keerthana G.

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

General Population ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Software As A Service ◽

The Internet ◽

Cloud Infrastructure ◽

Infrastructure As A Service ◽

Platform As A Service ◽

The World

Cloud computing suggests that the applications conveyed as services over the internet and frameworks programming in the server that give various services and offers in “pay as you go” trend which means pay only for what you use. The information and services are managed as software as a service (SaaS). Some sellers utilize terms, for example, IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service). The purpose of cloud computing is quickly expanding in everyday life. Today the use of cloud computing is widespread to the point that it is being utilized even in the medicinal services industry. As the development of cloud computing in healthcare is happening at a fast rate, we can expect a noteworthy piece of the healthcare administrations to move onto the Cloud and along these lines more focus is laid on giving cost-effective and efficient services to the general population all around the world. Cloud these days are turning into the new building pieces of significant organizations spread the world over. They offer assistance in servicing to offer different frameworks. Cloud computing has enhanced its technique and technologies in a better way to provide better services. Existing e-healthcare has many difficulties from advancement to usage. In this chapter, the authors discuss how cloud computing is utilized and the services provided by the Cloud and their models and its infrastructure.

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Towards Improving the Testability of Cloud Application Services

Software Testing in the Cloud - Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch015 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 322-339 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tariq M. King ◽

Annaji S. Ganti ◽

David Froslie

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Specific Problem ◽

The Internet ◽

Cloud Application ◽

Power Storage ◽

Controllability And Observability ◽

Cloud Applications ◽

Software Services

In cloud computing, applications are hosted, deployed, and delivered as services over the Internet. New cloud application services can be developed by tailoring existing ones, while hiding the complexity of the underlying implementation. Cloud applications may be able to adapt to changes in their environment, which should be secure and reliable. The infrastructure on which cloud applications are built is characterized by power, storage, and virtualization. But how does all of this affect the ability to adequately test cloud applications? This chapter investigates the testability of cloud application services. It focuses on the specific problem of reduced controllability and observability of software services hosted in the cloud, and proposes a novel solution referred to as Test Support as-a-Service (TSaaS). A prototype of TSaaS is also presented, and is used to discuss the feasibility, challenges, and benefits of the approach.

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DEBESŲ KOMPIUTERIJOS PROGRAMINĖS ĮRANGOS PASLAUGŲ GREITAVEIKOS TYRIMAI / PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CLOUD COMPUTING SOFTWARE SERVICES

Mokslas - Lietuvos ateitis ◽

10.3846/mla.2019.9793 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (0) ◽

pp. 1-5

Author(s):

Oleg Bystrov ◽

Ruslan Pacevič ◽

Arnas Kačeniauskas

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Performance Analysis ◽

Virtual Memory ◽

Software As A Service ◽

Cloud Infrastructure ◽

Particle Technology ◽

Flow Modelling ◽

Technology Applications ◽

Hemodynamic Flow ◽

Software Services

The paper presents the performance analysis of the developed software as a service. In OpenStack cloud infrastructure, the software services for hemodynamic flow modelling and particle technology applications have been developed by using Apache jclouds API. The performance of the hosted cloud infrastructure has been assessed testing virtual memory, CPU, disk IO, network and the developed software services. The measured performance of the virtual OpenStack resources (full XEN virtualization) has been compared with that of the virtual Eucalyptus resources (KVM paravirtualization) and the native hardware.

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