There is increased pressure to build applications quickly in order to respond to the situational needs of the business. Many of these applications never get delivered because they are too difficult to write, too costly to implement, and too brittle to customize and maintain once deployed. As a result, many of the needs are addressed by kludging together often inadequate solutions using using tools like Excel, Access and Visual Basic. But these needs can now be satisfied more easily and effectively by a growing number of services in the cloud. 

These development and deployment services, combined with a "situational" mindset and methodology, can offer significant advantages.

This site is dedicated to providing resources that help organizations understand and implement situational application solutions.  The foundation of the site is the book Power in the Cloud: Building Information Systems at the Edge of Chaos.