SaaS, Software as a Service, is an emerging delivery model for software made available over the internet, as opposed to being housed on the premises of an enterprise customer. At a simplified level, SaaS ia about delivering an application from the 'internet cloud', rather than from inside the enterprise. SaaS is a disruptive business and software delivery model that challenges well-established enterprise software vendors. It has the potential to dramatically transform the way in which businesses work.
Innovation in the Indian IT-BPO services industry has come a long way and has reached a tipping point as illustrated by the recently announced NASSCOM awards. The number of nominated and shortlisted companies was much higher than the previous years and much wider scope and scale of innovations. The market impact of new products & services that can be developed on the basis of these innovations can be greater if companies choose to commercialise them through spin outs.
Arun Muthirulan, 08 March 2010
The Cloud has become the latest marketing bandwagon for the Computing, Media and Telecommunications industries. New initiatives covering a range of technologies, services and business models have been conflated under this heading, with forecasts for dramatic growth in Cloud Computing and...
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Uday Phadke, 30 March 2009
dezineforce, the UK-based Engineering Design, Simulation and Optimisation Service based on a SaaS business model has become the first global player to offer a fully integrated engineering design optimisation service which promises to transform the way in which designers work. The dezineforce...
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Reiko Uchida, 24 November 2008
Intuit, the accounting systems and book-keeping solutions player, has confirmed it is moving into the Software as a Service market, with new applications in field services, inventory handling and sales management, which could see the company competing against Salesforce.com.
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Simon Fox, 22 September 2008
It was only a matter of time before Amazon added content delivery to its range of web services, which include the S3 storage service and EC2 on-demand computing. Amazon has just announced its intention to offer a content delivery service that could transform the industry and pose a serious...
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Michelle Wong, 18 September 2008