18 THE CHANGE IN APPLICATIONS
Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.
Jamais Cascio (author and futurist) in Fast Company, 21 August 2009
Cloud brings with it a need to rethink the ‘application’. The way enterprise applications have worked up until now will be found increasingly unfit for purpose, with the prescriptive and proscriptive nature of in-built process flows and data-handling approaches harming the capability of an organisation to carry out its business. This chapter looks at how the concept of ...
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