Saturday 23 June 2012

SaaS Solutions Or Software As A Service Explained

By Thelma Kent


It's no secret that cloud computing in general and SaaS solutions in particular are taking over the world. It's a revolution that will change how people live and work. Personal computers in the 90s moved everything from paper to bits and bytes, and then the internet built on the global PC and telecom infrastructure to connect all of it.

It seems so logical now that the next stage is Software as a Service. The internet is being used as a tool for harnessing and sharing the world's collective computing capacity. Of course, this is the big picture and companies looking to move to the cloud have to drill down to every small detail.

The reduction in costs due to elimination of in-house IT setups has to be considered. On the other hand, there is the cost of the transition to the cloud. Performance is improved and operating costs are lower due to massive scalability combined with a pay as you go system for billing.

Another critical task is deciding what applications and processes can be moved into the cloud. Each organization will need to find a unique solution matching their needs, but the aim should be to move everything. The hardware and servers can be replaced with IaaS or Infrastructure as a Service.

Platform (PaaS) as a service facilitates development on a cloud-based platform. The Software as a Service part for users comes at the end. It's not really essential to delve into the geeky aspects of the concept at the moment.

Let's just focus on what users are doing differently. The most common example is purchase of an office productivity suite for installation on a local computer. But with saas solutions, a web browser can be used to create and edit documents and spreadsheets online and save it remotely on to the cloud.




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