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Agreements, procurements and relationship management rather than mere
technology know-how (Worth, 2013).
Therefore this transformation is happening on both a corporate level and a
personnel level. The company needs to understand the new role of an IT
department, as a contributor to the business strategy with clearly defined goals.
McAfee and Brynjolfsson (2012, pp. 65-68) also say that employees, currently
working in a “basement” IT department should not be involved too much into this
transformation process, as they can easily become a resistant force that can delay
or prevent a successful change in the company. Therefor a suitable leading process
from the “old world” of technologically-driven IT into the “new world” of service-
oriented IT with clearly defined goals and outcomes performed by for example
project managers can result in an even better implementation of this change into the
company (Kucera, 2013, pp. 10, 25).
8.6
Benefits of Cloud Services in a Business Environment
"
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for
you two years ago, but will soon be out of date." (Roger von Oech)
For years an in-house IT-infrastructure has been regarded as a mandatory aspect
of a company regardless of their field of business. It belonged to the company as an
integral part such as Accounting or Finance. Cloud services and cloud computing
clearly distinct themselves from this traditional pattern of thinking. The IT-
infrastructure or parts of it are outsourced to remote data centers, providing the
resources on demand. The physical presence of IT related equipment seems to
vanish into the cloud (McAfee & Brynjolfsson, 2012, pp. 54-56).
Both the literature and experts agree on several potential benefits, which can be
derived from the employment of cloud services in a business environment: Due to
the on-demand access, cloud services are flexible and can be adapted to changed
business variables (Schweighofer, 2013) & (Faltus, 2013) & (Seher, 2013) &
(
Höllwarth, 2013) & (Vormwald, 2013). Hence they offer a good planning certainty
and scalability. Subscription models are replacing licensing models and make it
