How to Select a Cloud-based Business Process Vendor

Grazed from Business2Community.  Author: Depankar Neogi.

In 2010, Netflix made a very bold move. It decided to completely move all its Internet media streaming business to the cloud. The company would rather focus its engineering effort on solving challenging business problems rather than spending money on data centers. Besides, that lets someone else worry about being experts in a technology. Amazon’s Cloud Computing group actively is solving problems such as storage solutions, hardware failover, and networking infrastructure so that customers like Netflix don’t have to be superstars. Using the cloud’s elastic computing capability, Netflix’s business has grown and its traffic today comprises more than 30% of all North America’s peak Web traffic.

Yet, the decision to move to the Cloud was not easy for Netflix, and that is true for many other businesses. Here I explore some of the best practices around selecting the right type of cloud computing vendor, running your business processes on the cloud, what to run on the cloud, and how to know if you are doing it right…


Successful businesses have long understood that managing critical data—and transforming that data into usable information—makes a big difference in informing the business intelligence that enables productivity, agility, and competitive advantage. Many of these organizations have traditionally relied upon desktop solutions to house such data, but desktop databases and other tools lack flexibility, scalability, and security—and they have administrative headaches and support costs…

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