Cloud Computing or Cloud Services that’s the ultimate dream we have. It doesn’t bother anymore where services are running, we need a handle to it and it can start raining. Pending on which part of the world you live, you like clouds or not. For someone with lastname “van Holland” it’s almost hard to believe that he needs to trust the clouds!

Number 3 on Gartner’s list on Top technology strategies for 2009 is dealing about Cloud Computing. And a more detailed blog with the challenging title “Delivering Cloud Services: ISVs – Change or Die or both!” on that topic can be found on the blog of Daryl Plummer.

Cloud computing and cloud services will change the data quality landscape. More and more smaller companies can now utilize the analyzing, cleansing, standardization, enrichment and deduplication services that in past were only available om premise for larger companies. By using the cloud, massive parallel computations can be executed to bring solutions for huge volumes of data belonging to large companies. Next steps will be that the cloud will execute data cleansing more efficient. Why cleanse in total 200 million contacts for a dozen companies while the region itself has only 100 million citizens (or households).

Steps we still face in light of Cloud Computing are how to differentiate the services for individual need per customer, and the whole serious issue of privacy and security.