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Bruce Guptill, SVP and Head of Research - Saugatuck Technology & Mike West, VP & Distinguished Analyst - Saugatuck Technology

Saugatuck Technology's latest survey research indicates that more than half of all user firms worldwide plan on utilizing Cloud solutions for even their most core business operations within the next two to three years. And all our research points toward more powerful Cloud solutions, systems, and platforms, standing on their own as well as integrated with a wide range of traditional on-premise IT. This article examines the need for a Cloud development framework or model to provide a starting point, building blocks, and a benchmark for comparative analysis of offerings, and presents a simple foundational model for such a framework.