Saas Advantages
Essay by people • August 29, 2011 • Essay • 457 Words (2 Pages) • 1,263 Views
Promise of faster adoption
Minimal Impact and cost to Internal IT - Minimal IT footprint
Familiar Web based interfaces resulting in faster adoption and minimal training costs
Shorter Product Life Cycle
Frequent Upgrades
Key benefits: SaaS Enables Fast Deployment, better user Adoption, And Reduced Support needs
Key costs: Subscriptions balance With Reduced Implementation, upgrades, And Training
Basically any system that centralizes data and facilitates fast communication helps franchisers to manage the many franchisees and their staff.
On further discussions we're finding that their interest in SaaS products is for the following reasons which all make a lot of sense:
Ease of account set up and maintenance
Low cost - pay for what you use each month
Scalable system
Connectivity between all levels
Accessible from any Internet connection
Zero infrastructure
The Old adage "No Pain - No Gain" makes sense for SaaS adoption. SaaS comes with its own risks:
We are factoring key risks:
Security of Customers sensitive data and credentials
Moving to SaaS does not guarantee retirement of your hardware or people resources.
Software benefits of adoption, training and scalability have to be tracked and need follow up
While these concerns are understandable, the reality is that companies have been entrusting their corporate data to third-parties for many years, whether it is for online banking, payroll or commerce purposes.
Large-scale enterprises have even outsourced their entire data centers to third-parties.
Just as these services have proven to be secure, there have not been any serious security infractions reported among the rapidly growing assortment of SaaS solutions, while security problems continue to plague traditional data centers and legacy software installations.
The fact is that any SaaS company that wants to succeed and survive in an increasingly competitive market has to put stringent security measures in
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