Benefits of cloud computing for an enterprise
Technology is not an age issue: being a digital native, digital immigrant or dinosaur is a choice.
The paradigm shift involved in collaborative work in the cloud poses new challenges: in the way it works, business is done and in the functioning of the global economy.
In our Latin American region, almost all individuals use cloud services. The use of Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or Facebook is massive. Even if they don't notice, everyone is working in the cloud. Our role is to help you bring this experience to the workplace.
Advantages of the cloud
The cloud is inexorable; It is a tsunami, not only for technological reasons, but for its economy of scale: the interconnected data centers that make up the cloud are used by multiple clients and this generates a cost reduction.
They are fundamental services for our countries and their moments of ecstasy and agony; It can accompany the needs of each moment very well: it is elastic and flexible.
The cloud increases efficiency; You can delegate tasks to these services that provide greater functionality, charge less and allow people to focus on their own.
In addition, it offers multiple possibilities. For example, a number or a clause of a contract in a word processor can be discussed in a cell of a spreadsheet. That is why it is a "one way", an "almost addictive" issue.
The cloud and its effects on the world of work
The cloud paradigm generates great changes in the way it works today.
Currently, everything is done in a team, collaboratively, using the services offered by the cloud and we can no longer do anything alone.
The physical office is no longer always the workplace. It is now possible to work in any space and at any time.
The schedule from 9 to 18 became obsolete; the work is less and less associated with the schedule and increasingly linked to the objective that must be met. There is talk of "bubbles of leisure" because leisure and business intermingle.
And not only work from the PC, but it is possible to do it from any fixed or mobile device. As Toffler said: "There is a tendency for people (atoms) to stop traveling and to start transferring information (bits)."
Today, consumerization prevails as innovation used to go from the world of work to the world of home. Today, it is exactly the other way around: we expect, at work, the same experience that we are used to having in our homes or what we see that the teenager is doing with the internet and social networks.
Software as a service - SaaS
There are different layers or layers in the cloud:
- Software-as-a-Service (“software as a service” or SaaS): it is characterized as an application offered as a service. The best known example is Google Apps or Gmail for work, which offers basic business services such as email. Another example is Microsoft Office 365, which includes online versions of most of its applications (such as Excel On Line). And, of course, Tiendanube!
- Platform-as-a-Service (“platform as a service” or PaaS): it exists because software as a service requires functionalities such as operating system, databases, etc.
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (“infrastructure as a service” or IaaS): it is in the lower layer and is the set of physical media such as servers, storage systems, connections, etc.
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