Business Intelligence and the Cloud: Strategic Implementation Guide
- 3h 12m
- Michael S. Gendron
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2014
How to measure cloud computing options and benefits to impact business intelligence infrastructure
This book is a guide for managers and others involved in using cloud computing to create business value. It starts with a discussion of the media hype around cloud computing and attempt to pull together what industry experts are saying in order to create a unified definition. Once this foundation is created—assisting the reader's understanding of what cloud computing is—the discussion moves to getting business benefits from cloud computing. Lastly, the discussion focuses on examples of cloud computing, public clouds, private clouds, and virtualization. The book emphasizes how these technologies can be used to create business value and how they can be integrated into an organizations business intelligence system. It helps the user make a business case for cloud computing applications—applications that are used to gather/create data, which in turn are used to generate business intelligence.
About the Author
MICHAEL S. GENDRON, PhD, is a Professor at Central Connecticut State University and an IT strategy consultant. He speaks regularly at academic and professorial conferences globally, blogs about current IT topics, and is a regular contributor on many technology-related social networking sites.
In this Book
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Foreword
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A History of How We Got to Cloud Computing
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Characteristics and Service Models
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Deployment Models
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Strategic Measurement—TCO, ROI, OPEX/CAPEX
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Cloud Adoption—Are Your Organization and its Stakeholders Ready to Adopt Cloud Computing?
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Service Level Agreements
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Business Intelligence—The Interaction of Business Intelligence and Cloud Computing
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Big Data's Effects on BI Efforts in the Cloud
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Mobile Computing Intersection—The Intersection of Mobile, Cloud, Big Data, and Business Intelligence
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Conclusion
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Glossary
