The promise of cloud computing is to reduce the cost of IT infrastructure assets and processes through lower operational expenses stemming from the cloud’s ability to allow organizations to purchase only the resources that are needed, when they need it. Large enterprise software applications are faced with stringent requirements related to performance, delay, and service uptimes.

Business-process-as-a-service (BPaaS) is a relatively new concept.  It mixes Business Process Management (BPM) with one or more aspects of cloud deployment: SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS.

What is Business Process Management?

As we discussed in an older article, cloud computing technologies are on the rise in the healthcare industry. From large hospitals to physicians and administrators to small medical services providers, all have seen cost savings from implementing and utilizing cloud-based solutions.

Business intelligence solutions support better decision-making by providing historical, current and predictive views of all business operations. Business Intelligence (BI) technologies can process large amounts of information to provide useful functionalities such as reporting, analytics, data and process mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, predictive and prescriptive analytics. BI solutions help companies gain competitive advantages by identifying and developing new business opportunities.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, enacted by the United States Congress in 1996 was created to protect health information coverage for employed people and their families when they become unemployed, either because they change their job or they lose it. According to the U.S.

The trend toward cloud computing is hard to ignore even for manufacturing companies, who are continually asking if a cloud solution is right for them. What’s the cloud providing to businesses in the manufacturing industry? Let’s see how cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) can handle manufacturing concerns.

What is an Enterprise Resource Planning solution?

The travel sector is leading the way when it comes to adopting cloud technologies as more and more travel companies are looking for scalable and reliable support for their online presence. Cloud computing technologies ensure travel and accommodation companies an easily scalable computing infrastructure that is available on-demand and on a pay-per-use basis. The cloud model saves travel businesses from investing massive amounts of funds on infrastructure, and from managing it.

The amount of data in our world increases massively day-by-day. Big data is about capturing, storing and analyzing large pools of data from customers/consumers, suppliers, partners, operations, employees etc. According to a McKinsey  report, US companies from almost all industry sectors have, on average, hundreds of terabytes of data stored per company.

Business-process-as-a-service (BPaaS) is a relatively new concept.  It mixes Business Process Management (BPM) with one or more aspects of cloud deployment: SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS.

What is Business Process Management?