Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard the loud buzz about Cloud Computing. Plugging into the Cloud promises to eliminate the need for lots of on-site hardware, installed software, and disruptive and expensive upgrades for Human Resource departments and Staffing firms. Just think, no more hardware to buy/replace, no more servers to maintain, no more IT staff to pay and no more backups to worry about. HR departments and staffing firms “do not want to manage IT, they want to manage their business”, explains Simon Piff, a practice director for enterprise infrastructure at www.IDC.com , the global IT market researcher. Cloud applications for HR and Staffing also can support fast, scalable, and incrementally priced growth.
Ultimately, Cloud Computing is expected to transform IT spending from a capital expenditure to an operating expense — that is, from up-front lump sums to monthly pay-per-user. As Piff has it, “cash flow is king for most organizations, plus the restrictions on credit” have forced companies to look for more cost effective cloud-based software solutions, such as www.salesforce.com , www.eEmpACT.com , and www.BondTalent-US.com .
Few disagree that Cloud Computing is poised to roll in. According to a survey by www.GlassHouse.com, a Framington, Mass., managed services consultancy, 60 out of 100 North American IT executives polled last December plan to implement cloud technology in 2010. The real questions are how much and how fast. “People will see Cloud Computing make changes to IT for the next 15 years,” predicts Kevin Haar, CEO of www.Appistry.com, a Cloud Computing services provider based in St. Louis, MO. “Moving to commodity processing power on large servers can dramatically lower operating costs by as much as a factor of 5 to 10″, says Haar.
No matter how you look at it, the advent of 100% web-based On-Demand applications for HR departments and staffing firms that utilize the lower cost structure of Cloud Computing combined with the much lower monthly billing of SaaS pricing, the world of software applications is about to make another dramatic change. As software environments have evolved for DOS to Client-Server to Hosted ASP and now to Saas-based Cloud Computing, prices are set to drop by 50% once again.
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