Will Intelligence-as-a-Service Be The Next Opportunity For Solutions Providers?

By Jonathan Buckley, Senior VP of Marketing, at Qubole

To say that the cloud has taken the world by storm wouldn’t do the technology justice. In the span of only a few years, cloud computing has become an indispensable tool for most businesses and other organizations. There are many reasons for the growing phenomenon, but perhaps the biggest one is the cloud’s versatility. As the technology has developed and matured, experts have created more uses for the cloud. Now the number of services currently being offered by providers is impressive. Some of those services include Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and more. As the cloud continues to spread around the world and more services are developed, a new concept has come to the forefront. While it may go by the same IaaS acronym as Infrastructure-as-a-Service, this service looks to take advantage of Big Data and the ever-growing need for information: Intelligence-as-a-Service.

To be clear, Intelligence-as-a-Service is still a relatively new concept, one which has no clearly defined characteristics. Many developers are still trying to work out the details, applying different standards for what IaaS should specifically entail. IaaS doesn’t even fully encompass a specific area, but with its broad application, it may be used in numerous different ventures. Here are just a few examples where Intelligence-as-a-Service may pick up steam and come to dominate the concept.

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