"We see effective utilization of Platform as a Service (PaaS) as one of, if not the, largest cloud computing opportunities for large enterprises in 2013 and beyond. So we were eager to learn more from a PaaS industry leader, Treff Laplante, CEO of WorkXpress PaaS.

One of the topics we discussed at length was the emerging trend of a strategic PaaS partner at the center of the CIO’s cloud strategy. As executives scan their inventory of cloud and legacy applications, the first choice for any use case should be a SaaS solution. If a CSP has already built a SaaS solution that addresses your business needs, chances are it will be a cheaper and better experience to go SaaS.

But given the unique business processes of every enterprise, there will be many more use cases that cannot be addressed with packaged SaaS offerings. To address these unmet application requirements in a cost effective manner, large enterprises will more and more partner with a PaaS platform such as WorkXpress, Force.com, Zoho, CloudFoundry, or Apprenda and rapidly build their own custom applications on the platform. PaaS provides developers a framework for rapid development and deployment of custom code, and also affords many additional benefits to the enterprise, including: standardized analytics, enforcement of compliance standards, and increased visibility within the enterprise application inventory. "

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Last year, a study commissioned by SAP hailed cloud computing as the “new IT revolution…with even more potential for positive economic impact (than the Internet).”

It may seem surprising to compare Cloud Computing to the greatest technological revolution of this century, but the study provides the figures to back up their claims.

In 2010, Cloud Technology added more than 80,000 jobs across 11 companies in the U.S. These companies showed rapid growth despite a serious recession. 

Gartner and Forrester Research studies both projected a 25% growth in Cloud Based technology over the next four to five years. That could translate into 472,000 new jobs in the next five years. Extrapolating that growth on a global basis, cloud could easily surpass the job creation net of the Internet. 

Now businesses of all kinds, within and out of the technology industry, are benefiting from the innovations cloud computing can provide to improve productivity, reduce costs, create scalability, and compete globally in a more even playing field with larger companies. 

From Latin America to Asia, companies in emerging markets are skipping an entire generation of unwieldy, on-premises software and adopting leading-edge cloud computing solutions.

According to CloudTweaks, a recent study by Indian IT agency Tata Consultancy showed that companies in LatAm and APAC are beating out their US and Europe-based competitors in the adoption of cloud-based business software solutions.

Up to 39% of LatAm and 28% of APAC business applications are cloud solutions, while the US uses only 19% and Europe trails with just 12%. The study predicts that up to 50% of business applications in LatAm and APAC will be cloud based by 2014.

So, what leads companies in these growing markets to make the leap to cloud computing? 

I believe that in highly competitive markets full of smaller players seeking dominance, adopting cloud computing software is an effective way to control costs, increase performance, and give greater flexibility in creating and launching business software solutions.

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