cloud computing - the enterprise and the long tail

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Cloud Computing World Forum

A Global Software as a Service Platformfor Supply Chain Collaboration

Tony RyanTony Ryan

CEOCEO

www.asite.comwww.asite.com


Cloud – The Enterprise & the Long Tail

The Extended Enterprise

Cloud architectures in the supply chain

Reducing the cost of IT Infrastructure

How SaaS is leveraging the cloud to transform the supply chains of traditional industry


The Extended Enterprise

Collaborative Supply Chain Management

Successfully integrate – supply and demand activitiesYour own company & the ones you work with

Creating an interconnected networkServing your end customer

We call this the “Extended Enterprise”Each participant working to

Maximise revenue

Minimise cost

Contributing – efficiency, profitability and profitability


Business UsersBusiness Users

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Complexity, cost and control issues prevent the Business Users from leveraging the “intelligence” in central systems to

drive project “execution”

AnalyticsAccounting Database

Supply Chain Automation

The Business Problem


Controlled leveraged “intelligence” from central systems to drive project execution and greater profits.

• Full Service Data Management

• Non-intrusive, IP Read Only Access

• Web-Native, Custom Application

• < 90 days

• Low Cost, Long Term Relationship

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Supply Chain Automation

The Business Solution


“The interesting thing about Cloud Computing is that we’ve redefined Cloud Computing to include everything that we already do. . . . I don’t understand what we would do differently in the light of Cloud Computing other than change the wording of some of our ads”

Larry Ellison, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2008

“A lot of people are jumping on the [cloud] bandwagon, but I have not heard two people say the same thing about it. There are multiple definitions out there of ‘the cloud’”

Andy Isherwood, quoted in ZDnet News, December 11, 2008

Cloud Architectures in the Supply Chain


Cloud Architectures in the Supply Chain

“Applications being delivered over the internet as Services together with the Hardware and System software to deliver them on a pay-as-you-go basis.”

Amazon – EC2Hardware Virtual Machines

Google - AppEngineApplication Framework

Microsoft - AzureIntermediate


Asite Cloud

Asite CloudAppBuilder

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley


Asite Cloud


Storage – Unlimited

Cloud Computing – Seamless Storage tap options

OpSource Global Infrastructure Partner

Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

SAS70 Type II and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance - Audited

PCI DSS Compliance - Audited

Webex Certification

Salesforce App Exchange Certification

UK Government Security Accreditation – Audited HMG IS1

ISO 27001 Compliance

Reducing the cost of IT Infrastructure


Our customers are the whole AECO supply chain

Their job is to deliver to the Asset owners and operators

Our job is to enable them and enable their systems to connect

How SaaS is leveraging the Cloud


Over 1 billion transactions

BAA documented 2% saving in construction cost through use

of Asite

Achieved cost savings of 70% on tendering packages for

Heathrow T5

Supplier reduced transaction costs by as much as 39%

Laing O'Rourke reduces order processing cost by 56%

Our Cloud is Real today

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