Enterprises today are grappling with the question as to how Cloud Computing fits in with their IT strategy and the way they deploy infrastructure and develop applications. Cloud Computing has evolved from being the latest industry buzzword to reality today. While the cloud initially became popular with start up companies and independent developers, CIOs of both large and mid-market companies are now challenging their teams to figure out the cloud in their IT sky. At Intelligroup, we believe that the cloud can help create the intelligent and agile enterprise. It can help enter new markets quickly, launch new products, and reduce IT operating costs. Agility, flexibility, and enhanced user experience will drive the move to the cloud. This will have to be balanced with considerations pertaining to risk, security, and data issues.

Cloud computing can be deployed in various ways including Software As a Service (SaaS), Platform As a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure As a Service (IaaS) or Business Process as a Service. We believe that for larger enterprises, Infrastructure As a Service (IaaS) will see quicker adoption.

Both the leading ERP vendors including Oracle and SAP provide various cloud computing solutions. These include Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). For example, both Oracle and SAP offer CRM-On Demand as SaaS offerings. SAP is offering On Demand Business Intelligence solutions leveraging their Business Objects solutions. Oracle also enables enterprises to deploy Oracle technologies in public clouds like the Amazon Web Services environment. Companies can today deploy their Oracle 11g database and Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions to the Amazon Web Services Cloud (AWS).

Intelligroup is a partner of Amazon Web Services to help customers migrate applications and infrastructure to the cloud.

Intelligroup Cloud Computing/On Demand Services

Cloud Strategy/Architecture Services: Intelligroup can help you develop a cloud strategy and IT architecture that can help you leverage the cloud. We can help balance the benefits with the risks involved, and help you develop a Business case for which applications can be moved to the cloud.

CRM On-Demand: Intelligroup can implement CRM On Demand solutions.

Testing: We have experience testing cloud applications.

Hosting Services: We have our own Datacenter where customers can leverage out IT infrastructure resources. We have also built partnerships with hosting companies so that we can offer hosted application solutions.

Benefits

Cost Effective: In the cloud computing model, you pay as you go with no up-front commitments or investments upfront.

Agile: It is easy and quick to provision servers, storage, applications, and expand capacity as needed. It is equally easy to ramp down.

Cautions

Security is a major concern as well as data integration issues. So, these issues need to be thoroughly addressed before any move to the cloud.