The term Software as a Service first emerged in the year 2000 and can be defined as a means of providing services of remote access to software where both the software and the hardware components are hosted by the SaaS vendor (Torbacki, 2008). Introduced in 1999 by (Bennett et al., 2000) as being an upcoming shift towards service-orientation and virtual market places; specifically speaking to the Internet age, and the dramatic effect it has on organisations in terms of producing agile and dynamic
in house computing to internet, cloud based, computing using software as a service (SaaS). Furthermore it will provide the basic knowledge needed to perform an analysis of their business to determine if SaaS is an appropriate model. First we will review what software as a service is. The traditional model of procuring software and installing it on your local computer is called software as a product. Conversely the software as a service model provides users access applications online as needed. Users
INTRODUCTION Software as a service or SaaS is a technology made available for use within the cloud computing service that help businesses network or communicate effectively and at reasonable costs. SaaS is growing in popularity with projected sales levels to double by 2015 from the $10 billion reported in 2010 (Wikipedia, 2014). So, what exactly is SaaS by definition, and how does it distribute on a multi-tenant architecture? There are advantages and disadvantages to this service, but it does
In recent years, China's service outsourcing have been expanding from scratch, and gradually expand the field, scope of business mainly related to Information Technology industry, producing services, as well as cultural and creative industries, the target involving Japan, Korea, Europe, America and India. In Shanghai, Beijing and other cities formed a group of outsourcing industry cluster, with significant economic benefits of international service outsourcing park; local outsourcing companies grew
just a few short decades. These innovations have had positive influence in the models used by businesses for delivering software applications to their users. The software application delivery models have evolved over the years starting with the on-premises application delivery whereby application software was installed and operated on a computer located on the premises of the software licensee, rather than at a remote facility. This is the model that drove and defined the first generation of business
it is part of cloud computing. The other part of cloud computing architecture is called the back end structure. This part is responsible for the service that make the cloud work. It comprises of huge data storage, virtual machines, security mechanism, services, deployment models, servers, etc. () The back end service is made up of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platf...
1.) Locally Hosted service vs Saas. A locally hosted service is a service which is managed within an organization. That is, there is no third party involved in providing the service of network. According to Chinsky (2011), “Locally Hosted service essentially means you buy software solution from publisher or value added reseller and installed in the hosting center, where either physical or virtualized server are setup.” Locally Hosted service is a date back service, which is used for commercial
first cloud infrastructure that I would like to describe is the Platform as a Service model, also known as PaaS. The platform in PaaS describes the fact that it provides the computers operating system and hardware for the use of applications. To expand on the platform description it easier to say that a company can use this cloud infrastructure in order to run their software rather than having to buy each computer and software to run a program for each computer. A plus side of using PaaS is that new
Software Piracy Software piracy is the illegal reproduction and distribution of software applications, whether it is for personal use or business. In society today, Internet users are obtaining millions of dollars in software illegally. Piracy includes the illegal copying of programs, counterfeiting and distributing software, and even sharing a program with a friend. Software has become such an important productivity tool, the illegal copying and distribution of software piracy persists globally
Comparing Service Providers ISP vs ASP In today's society, technology is the wave of the future. With the invention of the Internet, the world seems to get smaller and smaller, minute-by-minute. When using the Internet, one must have a service provider to access any information that is out there on the information superhighway. The two service providers I will be explaining in this report are Internet Service Providers (better known as ISPs and Application Service Providers (better known as
Teletron, Inc is a provider of telecommunications expense management services for corporate telecommunications users. Teletron was looking to grow their business from about 10 million dollars in sales to about 100 million in 1999. They were looking to provide this in making use of the information technology realm. Timothy Lybrook is the CEO of Teletron and is being propositioned to develop a new Virtual Analyzer software package. This proposition is being made by Robert Jonas, director of information
primarily a software company which markets and sells its products/services into seven markets: Insurance entities and pension funds, Institutional asset mgmt, Hedge funds and family offices, Financial institutions (retail banks credit unions), Commercial Lending, Real Estate Property Mgmt, and Municipal Finance. In addition to software, SS&C also provides accounting outsourcing to outside firms. Industry Software industry as a whole is maturing and growth is slowing. Software/services one of the
commit a crime online by sharing unlicensed software online. This report aims to inform the reader about copy right low, recent ethical scandals in file sharing, what is peer-to-peer file sharing, open source software versus pirated software, solution to software piracy, and different examples of online legal file sharing services. 1. Copy right low Copyright materials involve everything like songs, movies, TV shows, photographs, magazines, books, software, plays and websites that should have a copyright
Hewlett-Packard (HP), founded in 1947, is an American information technology corporation which provides technologies, products and services to companies and individuals in different sectors. HP is one of leading PC manufacturers and its main product lines include computers, data storage devices, software and imaging products History HP’s history started in 1939 in a garage in Palo Alto with and initial investment of USD538 from William Redington Hewlett and Dave Packard (See Figure 1). HP incorporated
Why Businesses that Offer Courier Services Need Courier Dispatch Software The year is 2018. More and more businesses are already enhancing their productivity through the use of technology. Courier service businesses have not been left behind too. These businesses have been adopting the use of courier dispatch software. Maybe you own a courier service business but you are not sure as to why you should invest in a courier software. This article will help you see the benefits that this technology can
IT industry in India During the past decade, the Indian IT industry has been experiencing a dramatic growth. It grew from Rs.4.7 billion in 1991 to Rs.755.47 billion in 2003, accounting for nearly 3% of the GDP. The revenues generated from software exports reached $10.4 billion for the financial year 2003 with a 30% growth over the previous year. The main factors which contributed to the success story of the Indian IT industry are: -Support from the government in the form of industrial parks
for the information technology segment. Trends in the industry and the business cycles Information technology industry is a very innovative segment due to the fact that it has to meet the increasing customer demand for technological problems and services. A really common trend in this industry right now is the cloud computing. According to Gartner survey 19% of the organizations are using cloud computing for most of their production computing. Furthermore, an interesting feature of this industry
The idea of multi-tenancy, or many tenants sharing resources, is a fundamental to cloud computing. It allows single instance of software to serve multiple organizations. SaaS requires sharing of application servers among multiple tenants for low operational costs. This paper discusses the concept of cloud computing in single tenant and multitenant environment. Multitenant applications are very useful for the increased utilization of hardware resources and improved ease of maintenance. Keywords:Cloud
of their money. Trulity, a provider of online DIY financial planning services, believes that the government will at some stage be overwhelmed by the burden of supporting greater numbers of retirees with a smaller number of working people. Financial misery later in life can be avoided with proper financial planning. However, many people are frightened by the cost of a full service financial planner, who financial planning software can charge you between $2,000 and $3,000 for a financial plan and then
infrastructure of communication between the architectural components, based on an abstraction that hides the complexity of infrastructure. Each part of this infrastructure is provided as a service and they are normally allocated in data centres, using hardware shared computing and storage (Buyya et al. 2009b). To use the service, users need only take their machines operating system, browser and Internet access. All computing resources are available on the Internet. Therefore, the user’s machinery does not