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Highlight ROI for the Cloud with New Tool

kirsty — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:47:21 +0000

The compelling business case for the cloud is realized by many IT professionals, but determining the return on investment of a technology such as cloud computing can prove to be difficult for organizations, especially while their cloud practices are still being developed and adopted.

Astadia, a pure-play cloud computing integrator, and Salesforce.com have come together to announce the launch of the IT Cloud Transformation ROI Calculator, a free online service which will enable you to quickly estimate how much you stand to save in the cloud, versus on-premise. The program takes into account software applications, servers, data centers and back office functions and determines which would be cheaper with Web-based software applications and how long it would take to achieve ROI. The ITX (IT Cloud Transformation) ROI Calculator provides results in both US dollars and British pounds. The ROI generations will be made specifically considering moves to the Force.com platform as well every other major cloud platform including Amazon Web Services and Google.

For example, the ROI calculator shows that an IT environment for 250 users would run $883,000 for on-premise, while in the cloud it would cost $515,875, a massive savings of $367,125. That savings figure takes into account infrastructure migration costs; IT services costs; software licenses; project and platform costs; and IT development. At that rate, the calculator illustrates that the return on investment of the cloud project would be roughly 2 1/2 years. (Andrew Hickey, CRN.com)

"This new tool shows how much money IT departments could be leaving on the table," Cory Vander Jagt, VP, Astadia ITX, says. "Premise based IT solutions leak money at three different inflection points whenever a company gets bigger or smaller. Standardizing an application environment in the Cloud consistently provides elasticity at all three points."

You can access the ITX ROI Calculator here.

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Bime update: Déjà Vu, a distributed cache mechanism

nicolas — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:36:14 +0000

1. Déjà Vu decreases computation time & improves productivity:

It has been designed in order to respect the fact that what has been computed once keeps available in Bime and is not computed again (except if the data sources have been updated). During the analysis of your data, each computed query is mutualised in Déjà Vu. Thus, when you try to access again to this query, the result of this query is automatically retrieved from Déjà Vu and is instantaneously available for analysis. In the same way, when you or one of your collaborator publish a dashboard on Bime, each authorized user can retrieve instantaneously the published dashboard, without any computing time. Déjà Vu provides benefits in terms of time & productivity.

2. Déjà Vu allows you to share on premise data … ONLINE!

Indeed, by using Déjà Vu, you can explore your internal datasources (such as Excel files or relational databases), make queries and publish your findings through online dashboards and share them with people you want, internal collaborators or not. Only the mutualised objects (i.e. the results of the analysis) will be available. The online consultation of your dashboards doesn’t require any access to your internal datasources. With Déjà Vu, you can consequently share on premise data easily and in all serenity.

3. Déjà Vu is entirely automatic:

It manages automatically the synchronization and the versioning of the mutualised objects. Thus, when a mutualised query result refers to old data, Déjà Vu indicates to the user that the corresponding datasources have changed and should be reloaded in order to update the mutualised object.

4. Déjà Vu is secure:

It uses exclusively https protocol and Amazon Simple Storage Service platform. Both provide a high level of security. Consequently, Déjà Vu is made safe and guarantees an entirely secured mutualisation feature.

5. Déjà Vu is user friendly:

Like all features of Bime, the mutualisation feature is available by simple “drag-and-drop”. You can easily share your dashboards through a single clic…and do it the same way to disable Déjà Vu when you don’t want to share analysis.

The following video shows how to use Déjà Vu on Bime.

Mathias

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Using Bime to analyze data from SalesForce.com

nicolas — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:49:32 +0000

This is a short introduction on how to use Bime and Salesforce.com together for better decision making:

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