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Using Cloud Computingto Weather an Economic StormFebruary 2009


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Presentation Overview

Datastay - Our Experience with the Cloud and SaaS

What is cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) ?

Defining the Economic Storm

Weathering your Economic Storms with Cloud Computing

Summary

Questions and Discussions

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Datastay | Our experience with the Cloud and Software as a Service

Datastay has been providing SaaS (on-demand) solutions since 2003

Offer several on-demand business applications including:

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Quality Management

New Product Introduction

Residential Developer Sales and Service Management

Offer custom on-demand business applications

Each application is built and delivered on our technology platform

Our customer profile shows we have experience in this area

Markets served include industrial manufacturing, automotive, technology, residential development and construction, import / exporter, consulting

Customers range from publicly traded companies to 3 person start-ups

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What is the cloud? 4

The cloud is the symbol used to represent the internet


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What is cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (Saas)?

The not-so-formal “business definition” of software-as-a-service

You don’t buy the software you use, you pay to access it

You access the software through the Internet from anywhere

You don’t need to buy servers and infrastructure to run the software

You don’t need internal technical staff to support the software

The not-so-formal “business definition” of cloud computing

You access computer technology through the Internet

You access these technologies as-a-service

You don’t need to have any special knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them

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http://www.google.com/a

http://www.salesforce.com/

http://www.datastay.com/

http://www.netsuite.com/portal/home.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Skype_logo2.svg


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Defining the Economic Storm

The Macro Storm

The current economic situation affects companies across the board

You cannot control macro-storms they are structural in nature

You must strategically adapt in order to weather them

The Micro Storm

The micro storms affects your business specifically competition, product maturation, quality issues, increased regulation

Micro storms often hit when you least expect them

You can avoid, control, or weather micro-storms through the strategic choices you make

The purpose of technology is to support you in achieving your strategic goals

Your choice and approach to technology can directly affect the success of your strategy and your ability to “weather the storms”.

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Weathering the Economic Storm

The business press talks about what companies need to do to succeed/survive in the current economy – it often reads like a list of cloud computing benefits

Control Costs

Adapt and Embrace Faster

Mitigate Risks

Focus on Strengths

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Leverage the Cloud to Control and Reduce Costs

Control and Reduce Costs

Drive organizational cost savings through technology

Cloud solutions are generally lower total cost of ownership options

Lower upfront investment

Minimal or no dedicated internal IT resources required

No need to purchase and maintain hardware or software infrastructure

Fees are based on usage

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Leverage the Cloud to Adapt and Embrace Faster

Adapt and Embrace Faster

Rapid deployment leads to faster-time-to-value

Rapid deployment allows companies to embrace opportunities and avoid threats more quickly

Rapidly deploy technology to facilitate organizational innovation

Deployments can be rapidly scaled, either up or down, to support changing strategic objectives or market conditions

Usage

Functionality

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Leverage the Cloud to Mitigate Risks

Mitigate Risks

Much easier to run pilot programs and try before you buy

The cloud makes it easier to experiment

Less risk without a large upfront investments

Avoid lock-in (don’t catch a falling knife)

Fix your technology related costs and avoid unforeseen IT pitfalls

Contract your level of service

Better address information security

Pay for what you use

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Leverage the Cloud and Focus on Core-Competencies

Focus on Core Competencies

What can you afford? What is the breadth of your skill set?

Reduce the resources tied to managing technology

Apply greater resources to your profit centers (what makes you money)

A zero, one, two, or 100 person IT team can benefit from offloading non-revenue generating IT tasks

Application and server upgrades

Managing multiple vendors

Better align IT resources with business goals

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Summary

Cloud computing can help you weather current and future economic storms

Remember its about the strategy, secondly about technology

There are a multitude of cloud computing offerings that you can take advantage of

The technology and the delivery model can help you implement your strategy and achieve your goals

Cloud computing is not just about providing you a better alternative, it allows you to do things you may not have been able to in the past

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