Robert Desisto

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Robert P. Desisto
VP Distinguished Analyst
14 years at Gartner
24 years IT industry

Robert Desisto is a Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in Gartner Research. He is responsible for managing the software as a service (SaaS) research agenda. His research focuses primarily on the use of SaaS as a delivery model for applications. Read Full Bio

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Cloud Computing and SaaS Not For Everyone

by Robert Desisto  |  September 23, 2011  |  3 Comments

A client asked me how much of their application portfolio should be running in the Cloud using SaaS. The client wanted a benchmark of what other companies were doing of similar size and scope. I informed client that looking at a percentage is not a particularly useful formula. A more appropriate process is to analyze cloud applicability on an application by application basis. I just published an interactive toolkit on gartner.com, called How to determine the Appropriateness of SaaS. The toolkit enables clients to weigh and rate criteria to determine whether a specific application under consideration would be conducive for cloud computing and SaaS. Example criteria include security, integration and budgeting to name a few. Its must see for companies who are evaluating whether to move a particular application to the cloud or not.

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  • 1 Kazuya Uno   September 27, 2011 at 2:17 am

    Hi, the link above seems to be invalid.

  • 2 Robert Desisto   September 27, 2011 at 6:53 am

    Link fixed.

  • 3 Walter Scott   September 28, 2011 at 10:41 pm

    Hi Robert, Cloud computing is also characterised by a dynamic consolidation of IT capabilities to create a stable web-based platform including SaaS.