Software as a Service (SaaS) Most Beneficial Tool for Top Technology Officers

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Excerpts from the Report

While many promising new technologies vie for the attention of IT leaders and CIOs, only a few of these innovations actually end up improving top-line performance or bottom-line productivity.  Our recent survey of senior US IT executives and our experience with clients suggest that companies view a new technology as a highly promising tool for obtaining real business benefits: software as a service (which allows IT departments to offload the delivery and maintenance of software applications). Companies clearly view this technology as a priority that promises to help them become more efficient and agile.

What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?

Rather than purchasing and deploying applications inside the enterprise, many companies are buying access to externally hosted applications, so they pay for the software as they use it.  The software-as-a-service (SaaS) model can cut the total cost of deploying some classes of enterprise applications by 30 to 40 percent as compared with the total cost of purchasing and maintaining them in house. Of the senior IT executives we talked with, 38 percent said that they plan to use the software-as-a-service approach during the next 12 months. Popular applications include business software for human-resource management (including payroll), billing and order entry, and sales management, as well as security services that guard against spam and viruses.

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by
Erin Swanson
ESwanson@enviance.com