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In the 5\/17\/10 \u00a0InformationWeek \u00a0article \u201c5 Steps To Smart SaaS Operations<\/a>\u201d by Michael Healy, the article speaks to the 5 SaaS pitfalls and how to avoid them.<\/p>\n

In the dollars and sense section of the article, he says, “if you think operating expenses are the TOP consideration, you think wrong.”<\/p>\n

In a survey of 393 business pros, they asked which of nine factors had the greatest likelihood of being incorporated into an ROI study at their companies on the business value of cloud computing. The number #1 answer was initial capital expenditure.<\/p>\n

A very interesting finding considering that there are many (private) cloud computing offerings that require zero capital expenditure. Much like a managed dedicated server, if you host with a managed data center operator, the capital expenditure is taken on by the data center provider.<\/p>\n

What would you consider a top factor for an ROI study on the business value of cloud computing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the 5\/17\/10 \u00a0InformationWeek \u00a0article \u201c5 Steps To Smart SaaS Operations\u201d by Michael Healy, the article speaks to the 5 SaaS pitfalls and how to avoid them. In the dollars and sense section of the article, he says, “if you think operating expenses are the TOP consideration, you think wrong.” In a survey of 393 business pros, they asked which of nine factors had the greatest likelihood of being incorporated into an ROI study at their companies on the business value of cloud computing. The number #1 answer was initial capital expenditure. A very interesting finding considering that there are many (private) cloud computing offerings that require zero capital expenditure. Much like a managed dedicated server, if you host with a managed data center operator, the capital expenditure is taken on by the data center provider. What would you consider a top factor for an ROI study on the business value of cloud computing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"other_category":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBusiness Value of Cloud Computing: Where Does Initial Capital Expenditure Fit? | OTAVA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A recent InformationWeek article covers 5 pitfalls common to Software as a Service (SaaS) organizations and how to avoid them.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/business-value-of-cloud-computing-where-does-initial-capital-expenditure-fit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Business Value of Cloud Computing: Where Does Initial Capital Expenditure Fit?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A recent InformationWeek article covers 5 pitfalls common to Software as a Service (SaaS) organizations and how to avoid them.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/business-value-of-cloud-computing-where-does-initial-capital-expenditure-fit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"OTAVA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-09-07T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Irma Brillantes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Irma Brillantes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/business-value-of-cloud-computing-where-does-initial-capital-expenditure-fit\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/business-value-of-cloud-computing-where-does-initial-capital-expenditure-fit\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Irma Brillantes\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/#\/schema\/person\/35774075f8f4fcdd4eae80cb72034263\"},\"headline\":\"Business Value of Cloud Computing: Where Does Initial Capital Expenditure Fit?\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-09-07T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/business-value-of-cloud-computing-where-does-initial-capital-expenditure-fit\/\"},\"wordCount\":160,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Cloud Computing\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/business-value-of-cloud-computing-where-does-initial-capital-expenditure-fit\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/business-value-of-cloud-computing-where-does-initial-capital-expenditure-fit\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.otava.com\/blog\/business-value-of-cloud-computing-where-does-initial-capital-expenditure-fit\/\",\"name\":\"Business Value of Cloud Computing: Where Does Initial Capital Expenditure Fit? 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