Cloud based enterprise application - Advantages and future

Running a successful business? If Yes, then i am sure you are ready to complain about the painstaking manual business process and operations. The automation of these process can be done through Enterprise applications.

These enterprise application can be stand alone applications in your environment or rested on cloud n which can be accessed anywhere as per requirement. These Enterprise applications can range from Online shopping, Billing, Security, Planning, Business Intelligence, HR Management, Enterprise Resource planning (ERP), IT service management, Business process Management, content switching Module and many more that you can think of.

To understand the term Cloud based enterprise application, lets divide it into two fragments:

 Cloud based:

• It is a term that refers to applications, services or resources made available to users on demand 
• via the Internet from a cloud computing provider’s server 
• So, in our case a cloud application, or cloud app, is basically a software program where cloud-based and local components work together and relies on remote servers for processing logic that is accessed through a web browser with a continual internet connection.

 Enterprise Application (EA):

• An Enterprise is a word that is referred to huge business company or organization 
• An Enterprise application (EA) is a large software system platform designed to operate in a corporate environment such as business, organization and government. EAs are developed using enterprise architecture. 
• EAs are complex, scalable, component-based, distributed and mission critical.. 
• Why do we need EA?-- EA software is a critical component of any computer-based information system. 
• EA software ultimately enhances efficiency and productivity through business level support functionality. 
• So, basically making your Enterprise application software cloud-based would be termed as cloud based enterprise mobile application. 

  

Advantages:

Flexibility:

Cloud-based services are ideal for businesses with growing or fluctuating bandwidth demands. If your needs increase it’s easy to scale up or down your cloud capacity, drawing on the service’s remote servers.

     Portability:
    Where in the past, people would run applications or programs from software downloaded on a physical computer or server in their building, but now cloud computing allows people access to the same kinds of applications through the internet. In short, cloud is fast becoming the new normal. By the end of 2018 it’s estimated that 90% of UK businesses will be using at least one cloud based enterprise application.

           

     Disaster recovery and Backup:
Cloud- Based application has a backup and recovery option as the data is spread over internet and remote server as the least damage thus saving time, money and loss.

Increased collaboration:
When your teams can access, edit and share documents anytime,and also conduct remote conferences/meetings from anywhere, they’re able to do more together, and do it much better in real time.

Work from anywhere:
With cloud computing, if you’ve got an internet connection you can be at work. So, providing work from Home jobs or Interns won't be troublesome.

Transparency :
When you make the move to cloud computing, all files are stored centrally and everyone sees one version of the truth. Greater visibility means improved collaboration.

Security:
Lost laptops are a billion dollar business problem as all projects ,sensitive data may lose. Because your data is stored in the cloud, you can access it no matter what happens to your machine. And you can even remotely wipe data from lost laptops so it doesn’t get into the wrong hands.

Competitiveness:
Moving to the cloud gives access to enterprise-class technology, for everyone. It also allows smaller businesses to act faster than big, established competitors.

Future:

The above advantages thus specify why in recent years , more and more companies are adapting to cloud based Enterprise application for their Businesses . Still these are predictions of Cloud based enterprise application based on survey conducted by IDC(Business Consultant) and Gartner(Research company):

More application availability on the cloud 

With most new enterprise software being built for cloud from the outset, it is predicted that by 2018 over a quarter of all applications (around 48 million) will be available on the cloud.

Increased growth in the market for cloud: 

Based on their forecast for 2011-2017, Gartner expects adoption to hit $250 billion by 2018. Also, Gartner also suggested that the worldwide EA software as a service (SaaS) market would grow at an astounding yearly growth rate of 20.2 percent This means it will be growing from $18.2 billion in 2012 to $45.6 billion in 2017.

Increased development for the cloud-based EA software : 

More development is going to go to the cloud-based Technologies.IDC concurs with Gartner regarding the growth of these IT services and suggests that 20 percent of all application revenue in 2014 will be generated by SaaS(Software as a Service). 

More Innovations in Enterprise applications because of Cloud: 

Increased competition in the cloud space will give way to better products, services and innovations in Enterprise applications.

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Mr Aditya Bhogale is budding IT professional with interests in the field of  Web applications. He is regular follower of the recent trends in this domain and through his blogs ensures that he highlights the same to the world. He can be contacted further on aditya.b@getitrevamp.com