The Cloud Computing Applications Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Cloud Computing Applications (Electronic book text)

Cloud application services or ""Software as a Service (SaaS)"" deliver software as a service over the Internet, eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer's own computers and simplifying maintenance and support.

People tend to use the terms ""SaaS"" and ""cloud"" interchangeably, when in fact they are two different things. Key characteristics include:

- Network-based access to, and management of, commercially available (i.e., not custom) software

- Activities that are managed from central locations rather than at each customer's site, enabling customers to access applications remotely via the Web

- Application delivery that typically is closer to a one-to-many model (single instance, multi-tenant architecture) than to a one-to-one model, including architecture, pricing, partnering, and management characteristics

-Centralized feature updating, which obviates the need for downloadable patches and upgrades

This book is your ultimate resource for Cloud computing Applications. Here you will find the most up-to-date information and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Cloud computing Applications right away: , Cloud computing, 24SevenOffice, Acrobat.com, Animoto, Google Apps, BigMachines, BlackSpider Technologies Limited, Brightidea, Business Intelligence 2.0, Cacoo, Clam AntiVirus, ASUS WebStorage, Dropbox (service), Fatpaint, Fedena, Feng Office Community Edition, FonGenie, Foundation network, Freightgate, Gaikai, GetApp.com, Gigya, Google Docs, Google Fusion Tables, Icloud, IKnowWare, Imaginatik, Intacct, IWork.com, KnowledgeTree, LivePerson, LiveProcess, LotusLive, LucidChart, MashApps, Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, MobileMe, MVaaS, My Phone, Net-results, Nivio, Office Web Apps, Office123, Online office suite, OnLive, OTOY, Pdfvue, Postini, QuickSchools.com, Really Simple Systems, RightNow Technologies, Salesforce.com, ShowDocument, SlideRocket, Smartsheet, Social BI, Nsite Software (Platform as a Service), Software as a service, Software plus services, Spigit, Syncdocs, TOA Technologies, Vindicia, Web 2.0, While You Were Out (Cloud application), Windows Phone Live, Yudu Media, Zoho Office Suite

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