Talk:As a service

Requested move 23 December 2015

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Regarding WP:NOUN, yes, but this is a wp:set index list of partial title matches, not really a traditional article. – Wbm1058 (talk) 22:11, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

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*aaS → As a service – I believe that this term will be more recognizable at a spelled-out title. bd2412 T 22:24, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

• Support WP:RECOGNIZABLE In ictu oculi (talk) 13:57, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
• Support per In ictu oculi. –Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 22:21, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
• Comment this violates WP:NOUN 73.214.30.202 (talk) 20:18, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

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Breeding ground

"As a Service" is a lonely article that should be the starting point for sections, someday with a "Main Article" template to those sections that breed full non-stub articles.

Meantime, the first listed is not even a redirect:

"Artifical Intelligence as a Service" points to an article with a different name. Pi314m (talk) 20:43, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

WaaS & DaaS

I found "DaaS" as Digital Workplace as a Service (see the similar "Desktop as a Service")
and "WaaS" with both "Workplace as a Service" => Desktop virtualization with Citrix or VMware Workspace ONE & Horizon, including EMM for Smart Phones and Tablets; Application virtualization of custom applications as well as self-developed apps; hardware support from small client to laptop; print services and more
and "WaaS" for Windows as a Service, just supporting license management, call entry, troubleshooting and on-site-services for Windows (not hardware).

Please check and add. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.115.65.20 (talk) 18:27, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

RaaS

Ransomware as a Service took the industry by storm in the beginning of the 2020s — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.91.61.188 (talk) 20:34, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Added. Banana Republic (talk) 12:59, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

I don't think that extortion fits the definition of 'as a service' presented in this article. Which is, like any other Wikipedia article, supposed to be about a topic, not a phrase being used ironically. And furthermore, the Forbes source being cited seems to be paid-for content, and accordingly shouldn't be cited. I'm going to remove this for now, and ask that people discuss further before restoring it. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:05, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

I suppose the Forbes reference is not a good reference because it's paid content. There is another reference, by Microsoft, that discusses Ransomware as a service in depth, and does not seem to be a sales pitch.

I agree that Ransomware as a service is different from all the other examples listed, but just because it's different does not mean that it should therefore not be listed. We can list it with a footnote saying that it is an illegal service. This is similar to the Windows as a service that is listed with a footnote that it's now obsolete. Banana Republic (talk) 19:54, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

It should be noted that Exploit as a service, for which we have a Wikipedia article and is listed in this article, is also a service for illegal activity. Banana Republic (talk) 19:58, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Frankly, given the ridiculously broad criteria for inclusion this article seems to be built around (which appears to be anything someone somewhere has used the marketing jargon 'as a service' about), I'm wondering about nominating it for deletion per WP:NOTDICTIONARY. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:17, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

I think the article will easily survive an AfD, since it's not a definition article. It explains the pros and cons of XaaS, and provides a list of examples. If anything, this is more of a list article.

I don't think it's ridiculous for the inclusion criteria to have the items either have an existing Wikipedia article or a reference showing existence / usage.

But that's just my opinion. You can put the article up for AfD and see what the community thinks. Banana Republic (talk) 21:30, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

If it is a list article, what is it a list of, beyond things that have been described/marketed as 'something as a service'? AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:32, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Only the Examples section is a list. The article as a whole is not a list. Banana Republic (talk) 21:42, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

The article as a whole is a largely unsourced mess. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:21, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

I don't fully agree with that, but even if that's the case, that's not a reason for deletion. AfDs are only used for articles in which the notability of the subject is questionable. Banana Republic (talk) 23:21, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

But what exactly is the subject? AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:00, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

With this edit, what the subject is should be a little bit more clear. The subject is a business model in which something is being presented to a customer, either internal or external, as a service. Banana Republic (talk) 18:07, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Long example list

A table of examples brings no value to this article, it is just a manually maintained and inferior copy of Category:As a service. It brings no value to this article and is merely a venue for people to spam Wikipedia with nonnotable neologisms. This article is better off without it. MrOllie (talk) 02:14, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

A highly technical article like this one needs at least a few real-world examples of what an "as a service" business might do.

Twenty bluelinks to full articles doesn't seem excessive as a way to give the reader an overview of that. Prose that grouped examples into context would be better. No examples at all is worse. Belbury (talk) 13:58, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Given that all of the sources cited currently seem to be describing cloud computing rather than whatever 'as a service' is supposed to mean beyond being marketing-speak (if it actually does mean anything), it is questionable whether a separate article is needed at all. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:12, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

I added a couple of the most prominent forms to the existing text. These are really just marketing buzzwords that all equate to Cloud computing, yes. In fact the section Cloud_computing#Service_models is a better article on this topic than this article is. MrOllie (talk) 14:57, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

In which case, 'As a service' should be a redirect there. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:04, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. But I would wait for things to settle before doing that. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:19, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

I would support that as well. MrOllie (talk) 18:47, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Noting the list was copied without attribution into a new article, related AFD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of types of businesses using the "as a service" business model - MrOllie (talk) 00:59, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

@AndyTheGrump, Pppery, and MrOllie: Did I do good? 🤡 —Alalch E. 19:00, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

I've nominated the category for deletion: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 9#Category:As a service—Alalch E. 23:04, 9 December 2023 (UTC)