Comments on: The benefits of SaaS (beyond low cost) http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2010/02/10/the-benefits-of-saas-beyond-low-cost-2/ Trying to understand the intersection between business and technology Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:45:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Weekly digest of week 6 2010 | Capping IT Off | Capgemini http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2010/02/10/the-benefits-of-saas-beyond-low-cost-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1337 Weekly digest of week 6 2010 | Capping IT Off | Capgemini Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:53:23 +0000 http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2010/02/10/the-benefits-of-saas-beyond-low-cost-2/#comment-1337 [...] the iGeneration, schools shouldn’t block social network sites, we all know benefits of SaaS, but are there more benefits than just more low costs. And if you have been buzzing about Google Buzz, take a look at the special edition of the weekly [...] [...] the iGeneration, schools shouldn’t block social network sites, we all know benefits of SaaS, but are there more benefits than just more low costs. And if you have been buzzing about Google Buzz, take a look at the special edition of the weekly [...]

]]> By: Nigel Walsh http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2010/02/10/the-benefits-of-saas-beyond-low-cost-2/comment-page-1/#comment-988 Nigel Walsh Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:24:16 +0000 http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2010/02/10/the-benefits-of-saas-beyond-low-cost-2/#comment-988 Peter, I think you have captured the key ones. Perhaps worth adding/thinking about: <br><br>- platform for development – e.g. <a href="http://force.com" rel="nofollow">force.com</a> gives you a great platform to extend and add value to the core platform. <br>- Library of re-usable applications online - people have said the AppExchange is the iTunes of the application world.<br>- Can we add bandwidth benefits – usually very light weight and can be accessed anywhere. Of course the flip side is you become more reliant on your network & infrastructure to the outside world. Some solutions have addressed this with offline versions that can sync easily or keep local copies<br><br>Like the iPhone, it’s not the phone that makes the device, it’s the applications – and that now stacks up to a whopping 140,000 or so.<br><br>You could almost liken SaaS solutions to Social Networks - the more you invest in them, the stickier they become – that also means the cost of moving could be quite high...<br><br>My concern with all this is often you are just shifting the problem from inside the organisation to outside. Yes, there are absolutely benefits of reduced IT involvement, upgrades taken care of for you, but what happens when everything is moved to a SaaS - you end up with a new problem – integrating all these SaaS solutions together.<br><br>Esteban has also written some good stuff here - <a href="http://www.estebankolsky.com/2010/02/08/why-paas-is-the-new-black/" rel="nofollow">http://www.estebankolsky.com/2010/02/08/why-paa...</a> on this - breaking it down to the three layers of cloud – an interesting read (focussed on contact centre)<br><br>Ultimately, buying software as a utility is a great fit for the right businesses and business applications <br><br>Cheers<br>Nigel Peter, I think you have captured the key ones. Perhaps worth adding/thinking about:

- platform for development – e.g. force.com gives you a great platform to extend and add value to the core platform.
- Library of re-usable applications online – people have said the AppExchange is the iTunes of the application world.
- Can we add bandwidth benefits – usually very light weight and can be accessed anywhere. Of course the flip side is you become more reliant on your network & infrastructure to the outside world. Some solutions have addressed this with offline versions that can sync easily or keep local copies

Like the iPhone, it’s not the phone that makes the device, it’s the applications – and that now stacks up to a whopping 140,000 or so.

You could almost liken SaaS solutions to Social Networks – the more you invest in them, the stickier they become – that also means the cost of moving could be quite high…

My concern with all this is often you are just shifting the problem from inside the organisation to outside. Yes, there are absolutely benefits of reduced IT involvement, upgrades taken care of for you, but what happens when everything is moved to a SaaS – you end up with a new problem – integrating all these SaaS solutions together.

Esteban has also written some good stuff here – http://www.estebankolsky.com/2010/02/08/why-paa… on this – breaking it down to the three layers of cloud – an interesting read (focussed on contact centre)

Ultimately, buying software as a utility is a great fit for the right businesses and business applications

Cheers
Nigel

]]> By: Peter Evans-Greenwood http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2010/02/10/the-benefits-of-saas-beyond-low-cost-2/comment-page-1/#comment-986 Peter Evans-Greenwood Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:45:35 +0000 http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2010/02/10/the-benefits-of-saas-beyond-low-cost-2/#comment-986 Nice one. I've added it to the list. Nice one. I've added it to the list.

]]> By: shermo1 http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2010/02/10/the-benefits-of-saas-beyond-low-cost-2/comment-page-1/#comment-982 shermo1 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:20:51 +0000 http://peter.evans-greenwood.com/2010/02/10/the-benefits-of-saas-beyond-low-cost-2/#comment-982 How about try before you buy? Instead of a traditional big license gulp at risk, why not sign up for a handful of SaaS seats for a few weeks and try it out? How about try before you buy? Instead of a traditional big license gulp at risk, why not sign up for a handful of SaaS seats for a few weeks and try it out?

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