E-Business Infrastructure

And Blogging

SaaS
Software as a Service
PaaS
Platform as a Service
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service

SaaS

Software as a Service

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software

distribution model in which applications are hosted
by a vendor or service provider and made available
to customers over a network, typically the Internet.

Usually paid on a subscription basis, on demand

services,

91% companies got on ROI in first year

Increasingly popular with SMEs

No hardware or software to manage

Service delivered through a browser

SaaS

Examples

CRM (hccl.info)

Financial Planning

Human Resources

Word processing (google docs)

Commercial
Services:

Salesforce.com

emailcloud

 Benefits of SaaS
Historically, companies were required to buy, build, and
maintain their IT infrastructures despite exponential costs.
SaaS gives companies an alternative. Now, they can plug in
and subscribe to services built on shared infrastructure via
the Internet. The SaaS model has flourished in recent years
because of the many benefits it offers to businesses of all
sizes and types.

Challenges of deploying SaaS

Less Tailoring possibilities

Depends upon third party

Down or poor network issues

Local vs global databases

Reduce data security

Platform as a Service

Provision of software services for application

design, development, data storage, testing and
hosting together with messaging tools for
collaboration on the development projects.

Platforms are built upon Infrastructure, which is

expensive

Estimating demand is not a science!

Platform management is not fun!

PaaS

Popular services
PaaS

Storage

Database

Infrastructure as a
Service
Access to infrastructure stack:

IaaS

Full OS access

Firewalls

Routers

Switches

Load balancing

Plus Soft wares

Examples

IaaS

Flexiscale

AWS: EC2

Example vendors

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 SOA:

Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA)

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)isanarchitectural stylethatsupportsservice-orientation.

Service-orientationisawayofthinkingintermsofservicesandservice-baseddevelopmentandthe
outcomesofservices.
Aservice:
Isalogicalrepresentationofarepeatablebusinessactivitythathasaspecifiedoutcome(e.g.,check
customercredit,provideweatherdata,consolidatedrillingreports)
Isself-contained
May becomposedofotherservices
Isablackboxtoconsumersoftheservice

Blogs and Blogging

Blogs in an online dairy or news source prepared by an individual or a

group of people.

Blogs give an easy method of regularity publishing web pages.

Many blogs provide commentary and news on a particular subject: other

function as more personal online dairies.

A typical blog combines text, Images, and links to other blogs, web
pages and other media related to its topic.

Frequency can be hourly, daily, weekly or less frequently.

Better example of a useful blog is smart insight blog

Services to enable blogging

There are many free services which anyone to blog.

For example(www.blogger .com)

The main tools to create blogs for individuals or companies, in

approximate order of popularity, are:

www.typepad.com

www.blogger.com

www.wordpress.com