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Tony Bishop, CEO of Adaptivity Inc. has a great post today at Internet Evolution titled, The Consumerization of the Enterprise

Tony’s thesis is that the traits and technology we have come to love as consumers are now trickling into the enterprise. Specifically, Tony talks about Platforms as a Service (PaaS). I think Workstreamer fits nicely into this context…

The evolution of Internet-based cloud computing — applications, information, and content services delivered over a secure, Internet-connected infrastructure fabric — can incrementally be implemented into enterprise IT operations in the form of an IT Platform as a Service (PaaS).

PaaS is quickly gaining momentum in visionary organizations, where “abstraction” of the IT platform occurs for users, applications, information repositories, content repositories, and networked system infrastructure.

Organizations immediately begin implementing PaaS by adopting “interactive infrastructure” that includes dynamic application service management, grid management, service hubs, and utility instrumentation software — along with “interactive experience” technology of rich Internet application run-times, virtual information or content federation, and dynamic search capabilities. Firms that standardize their platforms by inserting these technology capabilities as “fabrics” can immediately and radically transform their ability to deliver services as needed anytime, anywhere.

Adoption of this concept is happening in financial services firms today (always an epicenter for innovation and aggressive technology adoption) and in the ecommerce space, where Amazon, Google, SalesForce.com, and others are providing various ensembles of PaaS capabilities that enterprises are consuming, using, and enhancing for delivery of services to their users.

PaaS as an enterprise platform is going to be the way that enterprise IT is delivered, just as “electricity over the grid” replaced traditional power generation.

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