Saving Energy with Online Service and Software
Reduce your hardware costs
The Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model offers a two punch combination to carbon dioxide emission reductions. The first punch is purely from the economies of scale realized from centralized processing and a shared services model. Instead of thousands of customers individually operating thousands of servers and the power hungry facilities to support those servers, the SaaS multi-tenant model centralizes data center operations to use less equipment and a small fraction of the supporting facility costs. When you recognize that supporting facility costs outweigh the cost and emissions production of the servers and related computer equipment you get a handle on how material this savings really is.
Read the rest of this entry May 8th, 2009 7 commentss »Cloud Integration for your Business
The appeal of the cloud is obvious: low and predictable costs, robust feature sets, rapid deployment, and no in-house IT support. No wonder more and more growing companies are putting their IT in the cloud. But what about connecting your Saas Application with your On Premise System. The potential for Integration is a key consideration when choosing an SaaS solution.
Read the rest of this entry April 10th, 2009 0 commentss »SaaS-based data quality and integration tools gaining momentum
Cost and flexibility may be trumping security concerns when it comes to Software as a Service (SaaS) and corporate data, as the on-demand deployment model is beginning to gain a foothold in the marketplace, according to Gartner Inc.
In particular, on-demand data integration and data quality software showed signs of breaking into the mainstream, with 28% of companies that responded to a recent Gartner survey indicating that they have deployed SaaS-based data integration tools, and 24%, SaaS-based data quality tools.
Read the rest of this entry March 3rd, 2009 4 commentss »How Real Is the Software as a Service Phenomenon?
Research about SaaS prospects for 2007
One of the issues looming over the 2007 IT landscape is on-demand software, also known as software as a service (SaaS). Software vendors of all sizes and specialties are promoting on-demand offerings, convinced there is a substantial base of buyers, especially within the small business community, ready to embrace SaaS as a way of gaining access to next-generation software without incurring high up-front capital costs. At some point, this scenario will probably come to pass. But where are we on the adoption curve? To help answer this question, IT Business Edge worked with Info-Tech Research Group on a unique research project that provides insight into IT managers’ readiness to embrace SaaS.
Read the rest of this entry February 25th, 2008 0 commentss »Software-as-a-Service Myths
For years, organizations of all sizes have suffered the hassles and unexpected costs that accompany deploying and maintaining a variety of traditional software applications that, ironically, were intended to make them more productive. Now a new breed of Web-based services are pushing legacy applications aside and finally giving users the business benefits they’ve been seeking.
This new form of software-as-a-service, or SaaS, has been spearheaded by Salesforce.com’s (CRM) customer relationship management and salesforce automation applications, and NetSuite’s “net-native” enterprise resource planning applications.
Read the rest of this entry January 9th, 2008A Key-Point-Definition of SaaS
The key to making sense of SaaS is understanding the process of transformation that software goes through once you move it off the customer’s premises and host it on the internet.
As has happened with so many terms in the IT industry, the definition of software-as-a-service, or SaaS, has and always will be, a very broadly defined term, and therefore it’s inevitable that there will be many different subcategories of SaaS. That creates plenty of potential for misunderstanding and confusion, of course. The key to making sense of SaaS is see it in terms of the journey a software developer or architect might take as they plunge further and deeper into the SaaS model. At the outset, the product they’ll create looks very similar to conventional licensed software. At the end of their journey, it may not look like software at all. That’s the extent of the spectrum that SaaS covers. No wonder people often have difficulty categorizing SaaS or making comparisons between SaaS offerings. If they’re dealing with different ends of the spectrum, there may be no useful comparison to be made at all. So let’s embark on this journey and map out where it leads.
Read the rest of this entry January 4th, 2008
