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SaaS - More Than An Acronym
By Joseph Hunkins at April 23, 2008 0 CommentsSoftware as a service - SaaS for short, is clearly a major development in how enterprise computing will evolve in the coming years.
OpSource, a solutions provider, has an excellent set of white papers and a resource center featuring issues relating to SAAS deployments and advantages. For the disadvantages with SaaS you’ll want to turn elsewhere since Opsource is presumably a strong advocate for SaaS solutions given their business model.
Over the coming weeks we’ll be exploring several issues relating to SaaS and the enterprise including the advantages of flexibility, scalability, and rapid deployment using services like Amazon’s E3 but also the challenges of integrating SaaS solutions with existing legacy systems.
IT managers of existing installations may benefit from the huge number of potential SaaS solutions but they also must contend with highly complex integrations and unexpected complications that arise with any major deployment.
Labels: enterprise 2.0, saas, software
