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The second incarnation of CloudStore has floated, but don’t get too excited. Despite some rather aggressive Twitteresque drum-beating for the redesigned service Friday, the new CloudStore does not deliver the functionality expected – while a flagged feature fell down on launch day. The new-look site, which happens to look a …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Just tried it.

    Much better, though still with some glaring errors of usability, and a design that only a mother could love. I will give it one endorsement though: in a previous comment here, I said that there seemed to be nothing in the Cloudstore that couldn't be done with Wordpress and a couple of plugins. Spookily, that appears to be exactly what they have done. Send my consultancy fees to the usual address, please.

    The overarching problem is the content. It seems that, in an effort to appear like the store is full, they let the suppliers post any old crap. Suggestion: enforce a policy where suppliers' catalogue items are not published until they are fully populated with useful descriptions of the services.

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    1. Wild Bill
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      Re: Just tried it.

      The bloggy splash pages are Wordpress. The actual system looke like Microsoft Dynamics or something.

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        Re: Just tried it.

        That explains a lot

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  2. AndrewCarr

    This is the first pragmatic step towards the Government consuming cloud services and it’s encouraging to see the initiative starting to take shape. However, adoption is not going to happen overnight. It will require a huge shift in cultural patterns and requirements to facilitate the move from an ownership to a rental model. As we have seen with other technologies and business models over the years, the Government will need to adjust its approach to match the new framework and ways of selecting and purchasing cloud services.

    Furthermore, this still does not address the underlying issue of ‘big data’. This new plethora of services available will bring with them even more digital data that needs to be intelligently converted into meaningful information, so that decisions can be made quickly and effectively. Only then will the public sector be able to start reaping the true benefits of the cloud services available.

    Andrew Carr, sales and marketing director, Bull UK & Ireland

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