Application Services
Probably the big paradigm shift currently happening in the industry is the move to 'Services' hosted by 3rd parties. Who wrote some years ago already that the 'network is the computer'? (well, it was one of Microsofts rivals - SUN). This vision is becoming a reality now. Why have Word and Outlook installed, if their online sisters are more reliable, cheaper, ...Right now Google apps is growing to become a serious competitor of Microsoft, and even Amazon is entering this market with offering storage services ... Soon we have SAP moving to a service model (they are already working on this for some years) and soon after this others will follow.
This trend will give new opportunities and challenges to the industry. The opportunity is that we get the option to focus more on what really matters for the company (because services like storage, word processing, accounting are becoming commidities, just like electric power ...). The other challenge is that we need to rethink the way we manage our networks. At the end of the day the only asset that stays is 'our' information (the data and documents) that need to be managed, protected, etc. Opening up to market services changes this model.
I see it mostly as an opportunity, since it will put information management firm at the center of what we have to manage!
Labels: Google, Information Management, SOA
posted by Evert Ruijs @ 6:11 AM
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