Nine things you need to know about SaaS

October 15, 2007 from Computerworld – “It's an alternative to in-house operations and outsourcing that IT shops can and should use to deliver services and improve their infrastructure in a cost-effective way. SaaS can offer high-quality services at a lower cost than other alternatives, and it's particularly good for supporting mobile and geographically disbursed populations, whether they are sales staffers, telecommuters, customers or business partners worldwide. And in its latest iteration, says West, the technology is offered by leading SaaS vendors as complete platforms unifying normally stovepiped sets of services, supporting underlying data capture and analysis.”

180 View – It seems to us that only a small percentage of enterprise systems are available from SaaS vendors today. An educated guess would be about 5%. But that number seems to be rising every day. In a few years, we predict the number to be over 50%.