I have been without a home personal computer for nearly a year now. After the hard drive failed in the family desktop for a second time in 6 months, I packed it up and moved it to the garage (a trip to the electronics recycling facility is coming soon). I have been delaying the purchase of a new computer because I don’t want the hassle of administering virus software and installing new applications.
Now, through my recent exposure to SaaS and cloud computing at work, I am starting to rethink my needs at home. Very soon HighJump will be announcing that of our newest route accounting platform, HighJump RouteCenter, will be delivered in a SaaS model. This model allows our customers to focus on what they do best – selling more beer, wine, spirits, and soft drinks – while we worry about maintaining hardware and network infrastructure. No longer will customers need to worry about data centers, electrical, cooling, system administration, patching, cabling, and other low-value but expensive IT infrastructure costs. Additionally, our customers get a “network effect” as they can leverage pre-defined integrations to major supplier organizations like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Anheuser-Busch, and MillerCoors. We have projects underway to expand this approach across the product suite and even run on commercial cloud solutions. These are exciting developments! I am convinced this will change the way customers think about their IT going forward.
Now back to my home computing situation….I don’t really need a personal computer (or Mac). I need a window into the cloud that allows me to access photo collections on Flickr, my friends on Facebook, office applications from Google or Microsoft and email from Google. So it looks like a NetBook is the newest item on my shopping list!
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