Cloud computing has proven, if nothing else, that software can be delivered over the Internet as a service successfully. Salesforce.com, Netsuite, and others have been making a great living using this model for quite some time now. These frameworks are built on business sales records, either CRM or ERP specifically.

 

Other companies, however late to the game, have started to catch up and are producing the next generation of cloud applications. These include applications that involve data that is drawn from several sources and is continually dynamic. CRM and ERP data is certainly in the mix but these new applications can include data from a wide variety of sources.

 

The legacy cloud applications combined with the newer niche cloud applications are producing data in the cloud at a record setting rate. And the cloud data being produced is a virtual gold mine of new insights. All kinds of new attributes can be derived from the readily accessible data. Because of this, a new application type is evolving. What used to be considered pure business application integration is slowly morphing into a richer more robust form I refer to as “Cloud Data Services”.

 

Cloud data services (CDS) can include application integration, data quality, data enrichment and raw data as a service. These service names are not new, but the same services tied to the new data available on the cloud are new. 

 

I predict that the coming months unveil new and amazing Cloud Data Services that open a new plethora of applications specifically designed to exploit the data availability in the cloud.

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