{"id":2671,"date":"2010-04-15T17:26:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=2671"},"modified":"2010-04-15T17:26:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:26:46","slug":"vat-how-to-explain-the-value-of-the-cloud-to-business-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/vat-how-to-explain-the-value-of-the-cloud-to-business-people\/","title":{"rendered":"VAT: How To Explain The Value of The Cloud To Business People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Weekly shopping receipt by Kai Hendry, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hendry\/2623977987\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3294\/2623977987_8937dd3bc7.jpg\" alt=\"Weekly shopping receipt\" width=\"143\" height=\"500\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few months back I attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloud9.com\/\">BusinessCloud9<\/a>, a really excellent event run by my old mate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darksome.net\/\">Stuart Lauchlan<\/a>, looking at cloud-based business applications. It was the least dorky Cloud show I have been to by some margin- the room was chockful of suits, <em>with budgets<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; one story really stuck with me&#8230;\u00a0 because it utterly nails the benefits of the Cloud model for business applications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netsuite.com\/portal\/management.shtml\">Zack Nelson, CEO of Netsuite<\/a> summed up the value of the model: Value Added Tax or VAT.<\/p>\n<p>During the teeth of the financial crisis the UK government cut VAT by 2.5% to stimulate businesses. For companies running traditional on premise business applications this was a total nightmare. Didn&#8217;t matter whether you were a small business running Sage or a FTSE100 firm running Oracle Financials this was a painful change to make. Retailers were in a tough spot. How were they supposed to make all their systems compliant with the rule change.<\/p>\n<p>Unless, that is, they were using hosted Software as a Service (Saas) applications. With the cloud, a change like this can be rolled out to every customer overnight- as easily as Google rolling out a new service.<\/p>\n<p>So next time someone asks what&#8217;s the Business Value of cloud you can just say read my lips &#8211; Some. New. Taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back I attended BusinessCloud9, a really excellent event run by my old mate Stuart Lauchlan, looking at cloud-based business applications. It was the least dorky Cloud show I have been to by some margin- the room was chockful of suits, with budgets. Anyway &#8211; one story really stuck with me&#8230;\u00a0 because it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[87,410,252,273,316,364,377],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","tag-businesscloud9","tag-cloud","tag-netsuite","tag-oracle","tag-saas","tag-tax","tag-vat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-H5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}