Charting the Path of SaaS and Cloud Computing: It Is More than Just Another Overhyped Technology Trend

by Jeffrey M. Kaplan

This issue of Cutter Benchmark Review represents a classic example of what we attempt to do every month with this publication. We identify emergent, emerging, or consolidating trends of great interest to IT shops around the world, and then we bring to bear the many components of the "CBR machine" to benchmark them and provide tangible guidelines that our readers can immediately implement in their day-to-day operations. There are two critical components to our operation here at CBR: our expert contributors and the Cutter Consortium office. The office manages the madness that is putting together the monthly issue of a survey-based journal that benchmarks current trends with fresh data, including managing the survey creation process, collecting and organizing the questions produced by our experts, computing results, and editing and publishing the issue.