Software Development for Cloud: An Experiential Study

Most of the enterprises are using web application for communicating with their customers, partners, shareholders and others. Additionally the web applications are used to carry out commercial activities and business transactions. As web applications are extensively used, its operating environment plays an important role which determines its efficiency. Nowadays cloud has proved to be one of the best operating environments for deploying web applications because of its features like automatic load balancing, scalability, maintenance and cost. As the demand is increasing for cloud computing, many organizations are looking for cloud based software to reduce their deployment cost and server maintenance overhead. The existing web application like individual/corporate websites, CRM/ERP applications, E-Publishing, E-Government, E-Commerce and E-Learning are slowly migrating to cloud. On the other hand managing the content of such web applications is a tedious task. The Content Management Systems (CMS) has already proved to be a good choice for developing web applications which ensures rapid application development and ease of use. CMS allows even a non-technical user to create, edit, manage and publish the content easily. When CMS is coupled with cloud the resultant application is highly efficient and easily manageable. In this paper we have proposed a new technique to develop cloud based software using content management systems.