Reporting from the Cloud:

The View from 3.635 Billion Miles, on Average

"Reporting From the Cloud: The View from 3.635 Billion Miles, on Average " details the ways in which statutory financial reporting and tax compliance headaches — along with their attendant hardware, software, infrastructure, and maintenance costs — can be dramatically reduced by accessing all of the necessary functional capabilities from the cloud. Here’s an excerpt:

“Successful businesses learn one thing very quickly: Software may be able to manage and yield data at ever-increasing speed in ever-increasing volume with ever-increasing precision, but hardware drives the bus. And installing and maintaining both at leading-edge caliber is tricky and costly … SaaS connects businesses to the cloud, from which otherwise unaffordable — even unattainable — computing capacity flows forth, eliminating many of the costs and tasks associated with implementing software and affording economies of scale not otherwise possible.”