BUSI 11 CASE STUDY-CLOUD COMPUTING and ISVs The Cloud is causing monumental changes in the information systems services industry, In every city, you will still see the trucks of local independent software vendors (ISVs) driving to their client to set up and maintain local area networks, servers, and software. You'll know the trucks by the Microsoft, Oracle, and Cisco logos on their sides. For years, these small, local companies have survived, some very profitably, on their ability to set up and maintain LANs, connect user computers to the Internet, set up servers, sell Microsoft Exchange licenses, and Install other software on both servers and user computers. Once everything is installed, these companies continued to earn revenue by providing maintenance for problems that inevitably developed and support for new versions of software, connecting new user computers, and so forth. Their customers vary, but generally are smaller companies of say, 3 to 50 employees- companies that are large enough to need email, Internet connections, and possibly some entry- level software applications such as QuickBooks. 7 Questions To Answer: In your small groups discuss the 7 questions below and discuss potential answers to each question. Unlike previous case studies in this class, each student must write down and submit his/her own answers the end of class. Using the knowledge you've learned in class thusfar, summarize threats that cloud services present to ISVs Suppose your team owns and manages one of these ISVS. You learn that more and more of your client are choosing SaaS cloud services like Google for email, rather than setting up local email servers. 1. 2. What, if anything, can you do to prevent the encroachment of SaaS on your business? a. b. Given your answer to 2.a above, identify three alternative way you can c Which of the three responses identified in your answer in 2.b above respond. would you choose Justily your answer. 3. Even if SaaS eliminates the need for email and other local servers, there will still remain viable services that you can provide. Name and describe those 4. Suppose instead of attempting to adapt an existing ISV to the threat of cloud services, you and your teammates decide to set up an entirely new business, one that will succeed in the presence of SaaS and other cloud services Looking at businesses in and around your campus, identify and describe the IS needs those businesses will have in the cloud services world 5. Describe the IS services that your new business could provide for the business needs you identified in your answer to 4 above