Recently, the most cutting-edge and popular IT keyword is "SaaS".
Many software/hardware vendors, like IBM, Google, MS, Oracle ...etc, are extremely focusing on this service.
“SaaS” has a tremendous amount of potential.
Software Gulliver - Microsoft is one of them. Microsoft is sifting software business( product out ) to service business.
Now, merely providing software products, this business is pretty obsolete and customers will not pay much money.
Recently, MS released "Azure", Microsoft's SaaS service. This service will become the base of profit of MS.
So far MS provided various software - MS office, SQL Server, Sharepoint, Exchange, .NET, etc...
By releasing these products by way of SaaS, users can use sophisticated MS services without paying expensive license fee and by minimizing system maintenance and deployment cost.
Also, MS can get new customers and provide standerdized services - they can reduce personalized support or customize.
Although many software/hardware vendors are now sifting to SaaS business and creating promising business models, I think MS has huge advantage, because of excellent IT technology, business know-how, brand-image, sales power...
I am really interested in future “SaaS” business and which vendor leads this business.
Wow, have I not read your blog, I would not even know that such a term existed. SaaS (Software as a service) is software that is deployed over the internet so that provider can license an application to customers as a service on demand, through a subscription or a “pay-as-you-go” model. It is extremely popular with computerized billing, invoicing, human resource management, and service desk management. I would also be interested to find out who would be the leading vendor for SaaS in time to come. Keep me in the loop my friend if you do have more information on this subject. Thanks a lot.
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