A city clerk wants staff to use Word and Excel in the browser witho…

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A city clerk wants staff to use Word and Excel in the browser without installing servers. Which cloud service type best matches that need?

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Software as a service (SaaS), because the provider hosts the productivity apps and staff use them over the internet. — Picture renting the finished office suite instead of building the office. With SaaS, Microsoft hosts Word and Excel; staff just open a browser. The city is not standing up servers or patching an app stack for those tools.

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Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), because the city must still patch every guest operating system.

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Platform as a service (PaaS), because the city must deploy custom ordinance code to a managed runtime.

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A private cloud only, because browser Word and Excel cannot run on shared multi-tenant services.

A city clerk wants staff to use Word and Excel in the browser without installing servers. Which cloud service type best matches that need?

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