Software as a service: shifting businesses to the cloud

  • Authors:
  • S. Abbas;R. M. Samant

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference & Workshop on Emerging Trends in Technology
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Traditional packaged desktop applications, proprietary enterprise and custom built enterprise applications are soon to be replaced by web based outsourced and on-demand products and services that put the onus of building of such services and their maintenance on companies with their core competency in developing such products. Software as a Service form a very important and fast growing segment of the information technology industry, and is based on the concept of cloud computing. This paper reviews the concept of software as service, its implication in the e-Business environment, the cost effectiveness of applications built on the cloud. Also this paper contains a sample application developed using Windows® Azure™ to view in detail the underlying operations in the services provided in a cloud computing environment.