Shift Your Technology Paradigm with SaaS
Software as a Service (also known as SaaS) is a way for businesses to obtain all the benefits of sophisticated software without having as high of a starting cost. SaaS, or “Service On-Demand” also removes the cost and complexity of hosting and maintaining the software on your own company’s servers.
SaaS achieves efficiencies by enabling on-demand software licensing and management of functionality, information and output, independent of the hardware location. The software vendor hosts the application on their web server and creates a private, secure environment for the customer with remote access, or downloads the application to the customer device, maintaining control over the use. In either case, access is correlated to service dates and contract terms.
How can SaaS benefit your company?
Provides network-based access to, and management of, commercially available software.
Manages activities from a central location rather than at each customer’s site, enabling remote customer access via the web.
Pricing structure for the hosted application can often be customized to your specific size, resulting in lower total cost of ownership
Updating the software becomes the responsibility of the vendor, the software expert, resulting in less error, and therefore less likelyhood of problems
Controlling Costs
On-demand software takes the owness off of your own company to maintain and upgrade its own servers and software. This reduces both hardware and employment costs, as well as training costs. You end up with a fixed cost for the software which is the same every year, rather than variable expenses like salary and hardware replacement. Saas enables you to focus your budget on the exact amount of software you need.
Using SaaS can reduce the up-front costs of software purchases through less costly, hosted service pricing by providers. On-demand service may also reduce a customer’s investment in hardware and hardware maintenance.
If licensing fees or server limitations are keeping you from enhancing your business processes, SaaS may be the low-cost, practical solution to introducing new software. Service on-demand will open the door to new technology, simplify your operational efforts and save you money.
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