What are the target customers and scenarios for SQL Data Services?
Target Customers: • Business ISVs building new multitenant LOB applications (SaaS or on-premises) with minimal upfront infrastructure costs while leveraging their existing skills and investment. • Small to medium businesses looking to reduce their capital and operational cost of storing and maintaining high-volume data while reducing server management overhead. • Web 2.0 Developers and service providers building data-intensive and mashup on-demand applications who don’t want the burden of infrastructure investments. • Enterprise customers building applications in test, development & production environment that can collaborate on large or shared data sets. Target Customer Scenarios: • Data Hub in cloud for content collaboration/reach over the internet across multiple branches or mobile workforce. • New LOB applications that can tolerate data access latency across the Internet • Archive/Backup data • Reference data (e.g., catalogs) • Running applications that have limited or batched data
