We are moving towards a world in which, from business owner data all kinds of devices, the vast majority of people (hopefully all) will have the possibility of accessing more information than existed a few decades ago. It is possible to use tools that allow people's lives (personal and professional) to be greatly simplified and improved at very low costs thanks to the network.
Moreover, the amount of information generated and the tools available continues to grow, and along the way entire venerable industries (newspapers, radio, music, film, television) are being radically transformed. But it is not only traditional industries that are affected. This transformation brought about by the network is also altering, forever, a market that is perhaps not as venerable but very powerful: the software market , the market for all kinds of software.
It's no secret. Terms like “Cloud Computing” or “Software as a Service” are on everyone's lips , promising to make software acquisition much simpler and cheaper, allowing users to forget about everything (purchase, installation and maintenance) and simply use the desired software through their web browser. Instead of having to install Microsoft Office to use a word processor, we can use Google Apps tools for a fraction of the cost.
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Many players in the sector have been positioning themselves for some time now, from giants such as Google, Facebook, Oracle or Microsoft, to companies that were born with this model as a central idea, such as ourselves, within business software, at LiteBI.
