What is the future for Software as a Service applications in an enterprise environment?
The growth of enterprise services provided by applications like Salesforce.com and Google Docs shows that interest from corporate business models is moving forward. Cloud computing has captured the attention of many businesses. The current economic downfall has forced businesses to be creative with less (significantly lower budgets than in the past). Businesses are slowly downsizing existing local applications and transitioning to the cloud to stay competitive keeping costs down while finding innovative solutions to better their business. Licenses, updates, maintenance these tasks are no longer necessary to be performed by internal IT staff.
Internet-based computing or cloud computing is on the rise because businesses are using the internet to provide users access to and share technology. According to a survey conducted in 2011 by the Yankee Group published by the Business Wire, Information Technology (IT) decision-makers are becoming more aware of the potential cost savings and productivity gains cloud services deliver and are deciphering how best to implement such services.
Businesses are facing accelerated change, both domestic and global, increasing the demand for simplicity. The technologies associated with cloud computing provides an innovative approach to creating a dynamic enterprise that enables hosted (no internal software needed) integration with third-party applications.
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a service provided through the cloud, or internet, in which applications are hosted by a vendor using a vendor’s IT infrastructure. SaaS is a multi-tenant application in which multiple businesses and users may have access t...
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