The Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) Revolution

May 12, 2010

The Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) Revolution

Here’s what you need to know about how cloud-based DaaS is transforming the way businesses manage data.

By Jim Fowler, Jigsaw

In the world of business, data is king.

Good, reliable data makes your company stronger by making your business more agile, and it can help you stay ahead of your competitors by always keeping you up to date about your customers, business contacts and operations.

So if it is so important, why do we often fail to think of it as one of our most central, valuable and precious business assets? Sure, we worry about its security and about its backup. But it's not often that we really think about giving the data itself all of the resources necessary to ensure that it is always up-to-date, filtered, clean and business-ready at a moment's notice.

That's changing, however, as the idea of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) is becoming part of the modern enterprise IT landscape, particularly in the area of business contacts, sales leads and networking.

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