Valley Inc

question 63

Multiple Choice

Valley Inc.is a Texas-based firm that develops applications for heavy machinery.The major part of coding and development is outsourced to Rousc Inc.,in North Korea.As per the contract,Valley Inc.provides Rousc Inc.with the programming language execution environment,database services,and a Web server.Rousc Inc.also gets to control the application's deployment and configuration settings.Which type of service does Valley Inc.provide?

• A)Forward market integration service
• B)Software as a service
• C)Platform as a service
• D)Reverse market integration service

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