8 Application cases for best public cloud services

The public cloud solution is mired in endless mistrust because it does not address the concerns of corporate governance and reliability. Nevertheless, if these public cloud solutions can show specific business solutions to the business executives who support them, they can still enter the enterprise. Public cloud solutions are likely to be successful in the current business environment. What can public cloud providers learn from the current business environment to enhance future applications?

First, provide a solution to the economic benefits that the enterprise cannot refuse. Some public cloud solutions are gaining traction in this area. These public cloud solutions are:

1. Application Test and subsection implementation

The public cloud IaaS (infrastructure services) service enables enterprises to abandon the construction of new data centers or expand the current data center. The enterprise does this because it unloads the workload of application development, testing, and staging implementation to the third cloud provider. Companies will not add new capital expenditures and avoid the risk of unused resources as application development, testing, and phased implementation activities slow down, as businesses can increase or reduce their pay by usage. As long as cloud providers have governance and data protection policies that meet enterprise standards, outsourcing is an extremely tempting choice for enterprise CIOs (CIOs) and CFO (CFO).

2. Temporary processing and storage requirements

During peak processing periods such as holiday retail seasons, businesses can "lease" resources from cloud services to increase processing and storage capabilities. This benefit is similar to application testing and staging implementations.

3. Data archiving

Given that cloud providers can meet corporate governance standards, some companies are willing to offload historical data from their data centers to cloud services. The assumption is that these data are not required for large data trend analysis and are used only for long-term storage purposes.

4. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is not yet conclusive. VDI was originally a "hot" idea for reducing the cost of Office software licenses, but later led to performance and management issues. However, the Enterprise CIO is still considering using VDI.

Next, provide a solution that solves problems that the enterprise cannot solve.

5. Supplier Management

ERP (Enterprise Resource planning system) is designed for enterprise internal process and Operation integration. Unfortunately, companies that expand globally need to manage thousands of of suppliers through a range of external business processes and data exchange. These external business processes and data exchange do not match the internal systems of the enterprise. Many cloud-based providers are making a splash in the supply chain by providing integrated suppliers and corporate networks that can access the consolidated database securely.

6. Background optimization

After spending a lot of money on revenue-generating areas, companies still find themselves losing profit margins, because the background operation is not enough to swallow the profits, and the problem seems to be unresolved. Especially in brokers and the financial services industry, there are now many cloud-based analytics solutions that can determine where "loss of profit" is occurring backstage and stop the problem.

7. Sales force management

Field based operations such as sales are another example of an external business function that is difficult for traditional enterprise systems to solve. Companies are using a large number of cloud-based solutions to achieve real-time access to sales management and customer relationship management systems, providing a full range of visibility into sales, marketing, service, and top management for each individual's customer and sales progress.

8. Project Management and collaboration

Project management activities in the enterprise have suffered for several years because it is not sufficient to rely on a single core project manager to update the task based on the information received. The accuracy of project status is affected, often resulting in disaster for project schedules and delivery dates. Now, there is a cloud-based solution that links each project participant to the people involved, implementing a real-time update of the project and collaboration that the project manager has never seen before.

Although these application cases have potential for public cloud providers, however, this does not change the fact that many cloud providers still find it hard to get the market share they want, as companies continue to doubt the governance power of public cloud providers and the ability to deliver solutions that are more efficient than the enterprise's existing solutions. There is no doubt that these corporate perceptions will continue to affect public cloud providers in the near future. Therefore, it is more important to satisfy the enterprise's own unmet needs or to provide the cost-saving benefits that the enterprise cannot ignore.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)