Does Your Business Need a Cloud Broker?
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"Expanding the use of cloud services for both back-office systems and B2B processes requires a high level of coordination and integration," he adds.
If your team is in danger of getting lost in the cloud, perhaps it's time to hire a cloud service broker (CSB). As your universal middleman, a CSB can provide:
A single point of entry into multiple clouds. CSBs "exist to eliminate the complexity of managing the data integration requirements of interconnected systems and multiple connections," Fox explains, "by interfacing to the other clouds on behalf of their customers."
A singular facade service so your people just see one set of coherent, uniform services. Say one department generates a ship notice to the façade. Job done. The CSB "knows how to make a call out to do a look-up on ship rates in the cloud to insert the shipping cost in real time," he says.
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Very interesting article! It's something most people probably have not thought about yet. Crazy to see all the things that you need to consider with the changing technology.
This is pure advertising.
A great article leaves you enriched in information and enabled to take action. Neither do I know how to select a good CSB nor any certifications etc what I should look out for, nor sources where to find them.
It is a "check this out - we do this" article. Not of high value.
Thorsten
Thorsten,
The Sandhill article was meant to be a term overview as CSB is so new. (I work for Liaison, as does Rob Fox.) We just came out with a CSB for Dummies book, which does contain more information. You can also email me directly at emiller @ liaision.com if you have any specific questions or want a copy of the book. It was truly not our intention to advertise through this outlet, just educate at a high level.