View this white paper to learn how a detailed TCO evaluation shows cloud-based solutions can deliver

significant savings compared to on-premises business applications. Cloud computing eliminates the need for

individual companies to buy, deploy and maintain IT infrastructure or application software. In the cloud

computing model (also known as software-as-a-service, or SaaS), the vendor takes responsibility for deploying

and managing the infrastructure (servers, operating system software, databases, data center space, network

access, power and cooling, etc.) and processes (infrastructure patches/upgrades, application patches/upgrades,

backups, etc.) required to run and manage the full solution. Because cloud vendors manage all of their

customers on a single instance of the software, they can amortize infrastructure-related costs over thousands

of customers. This results in substantial economies of scale and skill, reducing the total cost of ownership

(TCO) for customers who deploy business management solutions.