If you're the sort of platform-agnostic type just looking to get the best bang for your buck, you have a sprawling, almost unwieldy selection before you.

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Every other big player in enterprise social networks (ESNs) has a bloated Intranet-type platform, almost guaranteed to give employees dashboard fatigue.

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The industry is already beginning to transform from one-shot daily deals into a new type of local, e-commerce marketing platform fueled by publishers and beneficial for local merchants and consumers.

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Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.

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Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.

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Most new applications that leverage a cloud platform also understand how to leverage this type of architecture to take advantage of the cloud-delivered resources.

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