Business Models for Cloud Computing companies...
Raghavendra Prasad
am trying to create a small write up on the many possible business models that companies that present SaaS offerings could adopt. Am thinking on the following lines,
- LOB 1 - Support Enterprises migrate to Cloud Platforms
- LOB 2 - Cloud Integration / Interworking Adaptors / Solutions
- LOB 3 - Cloud Wrappers - creation of specific platforms meeting specific domain needs.
comments / suggestions on any other possibilities ?
regards,
raghu
Ray DePena
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Rao Dronamraju
From a business model perspective, there are some interesting scenarios.
In addition to the already well known, pay-per-use (public cloud), chargeback (private) & reserved (hybrid?...) models
You may also want to look into speciality clouds from vertical and horizontal market segments perspective.
In addition, you may want to look into the viability of micro, mini, mega, community (non-profit?...) cloud service providers.
In the speciality clouds arena, it is quite possible that some CSPs might focus on Finacial, Insurance, Manufacturing, Energy, Healthcare etc etc on the lines of vertical markets.
Similarly horizontal folks might focus on horizontal service offerings.
The intersting questions from business perspectives would pricing, what would be the optimal sizes and offerings of such clouds for them to be profitable and so on.
Some of this information, I am afraid no body yet has….as these scenarios are emerging as we are discussing.
From migration of existing data centers, you have enterprises, SMBs, ISVs, startups and even MSPs.
If you want to go beyond the above, you may want to wade into inter-cloud business issues, SLAs, inter-cloud pricing/chargeback, operability, inter-country-clouds etc.
I know that you seem to be looking specifically for SaaS applicable information but all/most the above are also applicable in the context of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS service models
Hope that helps!.
Regards,
Rao