Cloud services need integration
In the Software as a Services (SaaS) world, we are currently in a phase that I like to call the ‘pre-Cloud computing’ era. It has been referred to some writers as blue sky computing. The shear breadth of cloud services out there is simply staggering. You can do anything online with a service that used to be the domain of the super computers when some of us were still studying, like video editing, and you can play games that used to be available only on dedicated game consoles. But these services are often offered in a totally stand-alone fashion. Little disconnected clouds in the blue sky that is pretty, but they cannot produce rain. Stand-alone cloud services are useful on their own, but fall short of a real seamless cloud-only experience.
