[ Cloud Computing ] Re: cloud and user experience

My take specifically on the 'User Experience' would be more on
designing and enabling

a) Easy to use interfaces for the consumer/end user
b) Translating the complexity of cloud operations in to simple and
well structured front end user interfaces
c) Structured and meaningful delivery of information
d) Optimised Web GUI for cloud based applications (SaaS)

Examples are Rightscale's online Amazon EC2 operations portal
Gogrid.com's easy to use Ajax based user
interfaces
Kavvo's web based Amazon EC2 deployment
management interface
Hyperic's Cloudstatus.com which gives a
realtime trending of the popular clouds

so on.......

In essence, Information delivery architecture,GUI and Usability
design,Enterprise portal,SOA,Widgets,AJAX,Flash technologies could
help design and implemetations can help improve delivering complex
cloud information,simple ,but powerful interfaces with greater
usability...

-Sankar
nagarajansankar@gmail.com

On Dec 18, 7:20 am, "Collins, Jeff" <Jeff_Coll...@intuit.com> wrote:
> I've found it interesting to see all the perspectives in this group.
>
> I was interested in thoughts from others in this group on the value of
> the Cloud for the end user.  Is cloud computing just a vehicle to lower
> the price of software as a service, or increase its security,
> availability and reliability?  Or are there other intangibles that come
> from having software in the cloud for the end user?  For example, does
> an integrated experience of multiple apps working together, from
> multiple application providers, become easier to achieve and market
> because software is in the cloud?  Do new possibilities emerge?  
>
> We're looking at this in Intuit's Partner Platform, which is the PaaS
> translation of the QBSDK.  Security, availability and reliability are
> architectural quality attributes that are important and affected by the
> cloud, but usability is important too.  How does/can the Cloud help
> usability, if at all?
>
> jeff

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