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What is SaaS?
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a model of software
deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided
to customers across the Internet. By
eliminating the need to install and run the application
on the customer's own computer, SaaS alleviates the
customer's burden of software maintenance, ongoing
operation, and support. |
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How does SaaS
work?
SaaS offers applications specifically designed to be
hosted and delivered over the internet to multiple
customers, thereby increasing the chances at offering more
value added features to specific clients. By opting for SaaS,
customers today have the luxury of offloading their front
and back office business processes to a third party, whose
solutions are designed for the web environment, thereby providing
far more usability and manageability than their ASP brethren.
In a decade where ASP providers went to market before addressing
key concerns like performance, security, customisation and
integration, SaaS has come better prepared with majority of
these issues being already resolved. |
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ASP |
Networked and webbased access to commercial software
computing services where the
processing is done on a third-party server, rather than at the customer's
location |
Concentrated on providing organizations with the ability to move
certain application rocessing duties to a third party managed server |
| A tenant based pricing model for hardware, software,
administration and consulting services |
A one-time investment in terms
of setting the application system and recurring costs in maintaining
in-house technical teams to run the processes correctly |
Designed specifically for the web environment, thereby
providing more usability and
manageability |
Immense client server program with simple HTML web interfaces |
Offers applications delivered over the
internet to multiple customers, thereby opening
the door to more value added features at lower costs |
No provision of providing shared services to
multiple clients |
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