Interop NY 2008: What is SaaS (Software as a Service)?
Hello Webgrrls. More greetings and info from September’s Interop conference.
In this post I will try to break down the following: the meaning of SaaS (Software as a Service) and, briefly PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).
One track of the Interop NY seminars dealt with SaaS, and I thought it would be a valuable complement to the seminars I attended on Cloud Computing, so, there I was. And here we go.
To start, Software as a Service.
An application that is delivered through the SaaS model is typically done over the internet by a third party with no opportunity to bring the application in-house. As a user/subscriber, you use that provider’s application.
The other key to all SaaS is a variable, pay-as-you-go pricing structure, or on-demand pricing, a 21st century morph of just-in-time inventory strategies. Salesforce.com, Netsuite, and similar CRM and eCommerce applications come to mind. SaaS solutions increasingly offer real time analytics and self-provisioned toolkits, and have gained both traction and credibility in areas like accounting software, financial applications and supply chain management. Continue Reading “Interop NY 2008: What is SaaS (Software as a Service)?”
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