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Even the establishment is now talking persuasively about software in the cloud as opposed to locally installed.

This is a reprint from AMR Research (link at the bottom) an organization I’ve followed for years.  In the past they’ve mostly seen their role as helping clients understand what the biggest vendors were doing, and how they align strategies with the vendors.

As we see from this checklist AMR is now very firmly on the bandwagon when it comes to promoting the benefits of cloud computing.

All the benefits highlighted in the list of real, and easy to measure.  Perversely they haven’t pointed to the risks, which they certainly would have done a couple of years ago.

But they’ve missed out the most important benefit of all – being connected.

Connection to the cloud offers almost endless possibilities for sharing and collaboration – factors which will drive customer value and service in the coming decade.

My Checklist on the Economics of Cloud Apps

Over the last year or so I have participated in a several webcasts where my role has been to offer advice on how to select your next business system. If you read last week’s First Thing Monday, you will detect my belief that more and more applications should move to the cloud/SaaS because of the economics.

Here’s a slightly modified checklist from the most recent webcast. Feel free to add/delete or rant/rave.