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SaaS gaining ground

March 28th, 2006 at 09:12am David Bush - Iasta

The delivery model of most e-Sourcing vendors is getting more daily publicity as a strong business model. Articles like this, and this, are appearing in publications weekly which are making the terms more commonplace.

This type of software model makes a lot of sense for purchasing departments as it is easy to get launched, cost effective, has rapid ROI value, involves minimal (if any) IT involvement, is highly flexible, and takes no resources away from the people using the technology. “Deployment” is turnkey and can literally have users into the solution doing real sourcing projects within an hour.

I have always found it interesting though, that so many terms are used to describe the same thing. Remember ASP (application service provider)? That is old news now, thanks mostly to pets.com and Navisite, etc. Successful companies have re-invented the terminology to distance themselves from those failures with fancy terms like SaaS and software on-demand. It is really all the same thing and not worth splitting hairs over and makes for sound business strategy. We have customers all over Europe that literally can be utilizing the benefit of our technology without a single hitch which is truly amazing and plays a large role in our growing success as a company.

IDC recently released a study on SaaS and I will be writing another post on this topic tomorrow.

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