Different type of Cloud Services

Different type of Cloud Services

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Cloud platform is seeing rapid growth past few years and for many it is still very confusing with each service provider touting technical terms. Below are the few basic cloud services offered by various companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce. For a non IT person, below is perfect explanation in simplest terms.

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SaaS Services

  • Email and Office Productivity: Applications for email, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.
  • Billing: Application services to manage customer billing based on usage and subscriptions to products and services.
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM): CRM applications that range from call center applications to sales force automation.
  • Collaboration: Tools that allow users to collaborate in workgroups, within enterprises, and across enterprises.
  • Content Management: Services for managing the production of and access to content for web-based applications.
  • Document Management: Applications for managing documents, enforcing document production workflows, and providing workspaces for groups or enterprises to find and access documents.
  • Financials: Applications for managing financial processes ranging from expense processing and invoicing to tax management.
  • Human Resources: Software for managing human resources functions within companies.
  • Sales: Applications that are specifically designed for sales functions such as pricing, commission tracking, etc.
  • Social Networks: Social software that establishes and maintains a connection among users that are tied in one or more specific types of interdependency.
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Integrated computer-based system used to manage internal and external resources, including tangible assets, financial resources, materials, and human resources.

PaaS Services

  • Business Intelligence: Platforms for the creation of applications such as dashboards, reporting systems, and data analysis.
  • Database: Services offering scalable relational database solutions or scalable non-SQL datastores.
  • Development and Testing: Platforms for the development and testing cycles of application development, which expand and contract as needed.
  • Integration: Development platforms for building integration applications in the cloud and within the enterprise.
  • Application Deployment: Platforms suited for general purpose application development. These services provide databases, web application runtime environments, etc.

IaaS Services

  • Backup and Recovery: Services for backup and recovery of file systems and raw data stores on servers and desktop systems.
  • Compute: Server resources for running cloud-based systems that can be dynamically provisioned and configured as needed.
  • Content Delivery Networks (CDNs): CDNs store content and files to improve the performance and cost of delivering content for web-based systems.
  • Services Management: Services that manage cloud infrastructure platforms. These tools often provide features that cloud providers do not provide or specialize in managing certain application technologies.
  • Storage: Massively scalable storage capacity that can be used for applications, backups, archival, and file storage.