In a recent article by Treff LaPlante, CEO at WorkXpress, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider, Treff points out the rising importance of the business analyst in the cloud computing paradigm.
“Using a 5GL PaaS an entire company can be automated from scratch in just a matter of weeks, but ONLY if there is an effective identification of the desired process, a description of the specific needs of that process and finally an aggressive review and testing of the completed functionality with the actual users.”
http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/1076064
Whether it’s business, government, education, or healthcare, the underlying question is, “How do we get from today’s organizational [enterprise] infrastructure (and processes) to that of a Cloud computing business model?”