Issues to consider include ease of deployment, managing backup and data access, support, security, network complexity, device management, operating system diversity, total cost of ownership and integration of various tablet platforms at the application, mobile device management process and system level.

FORBES: Written by Mitch Cline

The same sort of challenges of integration, identity management, disaster recovery that were addressed as ERP and the rest of the enterprise application suite emerged will now have to be addressed in the world of SaaS. The scope of this work is vastly underestimated, as is the maturity of the available solutions targeted at addressing these problems.

FORBES: The Coming Crisis of IT Management

All of those features are not ready, yet, but all of the pieces are there in the system because we are focused on cross application integration.

FORBES: Hulu, Meet Twitter: Drund Tries to Take Your Desktop to the Cloud

MOG's free service takes advantage of its recently unveiled HTML5 web application, which comes out of beta today, featuring a slick new interface and advanced features such as integration with Facebook for personalized recommendations.

ENGADGET: MOG FreePlay brings 11 million songs to the web gratis, makes you work for free tunes

All we needed to do was a small amount of Active Directory integration in the background, and like magic, staff could access the application from any computer and my IT team was relieved from managing a sometimes flaky application with all too frequent updates.

FORBES: Making the Cloud Less Cloudy for Educators