I think Software as a Service (SaaS) is going to be even more prominent in 2009. It’s often cheaper (also available in credit crunch!), more flexible and speaks to a culture of change and innovation. One obvious way companies are using SaaS is interaction with clients where you can provide them with an exchange platform for projects and knowledge sharing.
This post on ReadWriteWeb looks at the reasons some traditional IT shops are scared of SaaS.
“Some traditional enterprise IT vendors are selling the line that SaaS is a passing phase, that it is “old wine in new bottles”. They are telling their market that SaaS is really no different from the discredited Web 1.0 Application Service Provider (ASP) model or even that it is simply the ghost of the ancient mainframe Service Bureau come back to haunt us all. This post shows why their analysis is wrong. It also shows why some traditional enterprise IT vendors feel so threatened by SaaS and why the economic downturn just made this a major issue.”
Read the full article at www.readwriteweb.com
Tags: culture, SaaS, traditional