Chapter 7

Technical Forces Driving the Adoption of Cloud Computing

This chapter provides force field analyses for adopting two types of cloud providers: software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). Towards the end of the chapter, the analyses will be combined with the analysis for service-oriented architectures (SOAs). I will show that using cloud computing generally increases the number of technical driving forces for adopting an SOA. Cloud computing also increases the strength of some of the existing technical driving forces for adopting an SOA.

Adopting Software as a Service (SaaS)

There have been many examples of SaaS cloud providers1 in this book. The audio-video (AV) example at the beginning of Chapter 4 uses multiple SaaS ...

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