- Provides Web 2.0 application such as photo sharing,video sharing and user generated content as services
- Provides other services such as online data storage and backup
EXAMPLES OF SERVICE PROVIDER
- GMAIL
Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service
provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure web mail, as well as via
POP3 or IMAP4 protocols.
With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user,
Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2
to 4 MB its competitors such as Hotmail offered at that time.Individual Gmail
messages, including attachments, may be up to 25 MB.
Gmail has a
search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an
Internet forum.As of June 2012, it was the most widely used web-based email
provider with over 425 million active users worldwide. According to a 2014
estimate, 60% of mid-sized US companies were using Gmail. In May 2014, Gmail
became the first app on the Google Play Store to hit one billion installations
on Android devices.
- DROPBOX
Dropbox is a cloud storage provider sometimes referred to as
an online backup service that is frequently used as a file-sharing
service. Dropbox is a personal cloud storage service that is frequently used for
file sharing and collaboration.
The Dropbox
application is available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux desktop operating
systems. There are also apps for iPhone,
iPad, Android, and BlackBerry devices.
- GOOGLE APPS
Google Apps for Work is a suite of cloud computing
productivity and collaboration softwaretools and software offered on a
subscription basis by Google.
It includes Google’s popular web applications including
Gmail, Google Drive, Google Hangouts, Google Calendar, and Google Docs.While
these products are available to consumers free of charge, Google Apps for Work
adds business-specific features such as custom email addresses at your domain
(@yourcompany.com), at least 30GB of storage for documents and email, and 24/7
phone and email support.As a cloud computing solution, it takes a different
approach from off-the-shelf office productivity software by hosting customer
information in Google’s network of secure data centers, rather than on
traditional in-house servers that are located within companies.