{"id":16916,"date":"2015-08-31T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3433344"},"modified":"2015-08-31T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:45:00","slug":"to-b2b-or-not-b2b-thats-a-question-by-frankgreco-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/to-b2b-or-not-b2b-thats-a-question-by-frankgreco-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"To B2B, or Not B2B, That\u2019s a Question? By @FrankGreco | @CloudExpo #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Information Technology (IT) world, the word \u201centerprise\u201d is bandied about quite often. First, I really have no idea how to bandy about. If it involves incense and oils, I may have an idea, but let\u2019s talk about enterprises instead.<\/p>\n<p>If you do some serious digging, you\u2019ll find out an enterprise is a federation, in other words, a collection of related business units with a common goal of profitability. It is an aggregate, dynamic yet unified entity that provides a product or service to benefit customers in return for revenue and profit. You\u2019ll probably hear \u201centerprise\u201d loosely and actually incorrectly used interchangeably with \u201ccompany\u201d or \u201cbusiness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3433344\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Information Technology (IT) world, the word &ldquo;enterprise&rdquo; is bandied about quite often. First, I really have no idea how to bandy about. If it involves incense and oils, I may have an idea, but let&rsquo;s talk about enterprises instead.<\/p>\n<p>If you do some serious digging, you&rsquo;ll find out an enterprise is a federation, in other words, a collection of related business units with a common goal of profitability. It is an aggregate, dynamic yet unified entity that provides a product or service to benefit customers in return for revenue and profit. You&rsquo;ll probably hear &ldquo;enterprise&rdquo; loosely and actually incorrectly used interchangeably with &ldquo;company&rdquo; or &ldquo;business&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3433344\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17157,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916\/revisions\/17157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}