Blog 4: Horizontech.com

ENSURING BETTER MARKET VISIBILITY WITH SAAS SERVICES

With the need of gaining presence in the market, companies realize the benefits of SaaS software which may require

fundamental modification to a software vendor's business model, operational structure and software architecture.

This post will give an overview of the issues related to software application itself and the development associated

with switching over to SaaS software. Time is of major importance. Usually with all new business model, the

appreciation often goes to early market competitors. Whereas increasing the time-to-market of your software

deployment is quite essential to your business’ success. Outsourcing various process stages along with the assistance

of an expert services team, and getting best on-demand service delivery firm will increase your time-to-market and

insure an on-time, on-scope, on-budget, implementation of projects.

While there are lots of benefits in providing Software as a Service, conventional software companies could face

challenges in moving to this model. Firstly the software must be web-enabled, possessing all functions done by the

user with a web browser. If you comprise a client-server application, you must try replacing the functionality

executing the client with HTML, and perhaps the other technologies (XML, Java, etc.), that can be exhibited by a web

browser over the Internet. Next, in order to increase operational competence, your software is expected to be multi-

instance.

As you move from single-instance to multi-instance by having multiple copies of your software on a single set of

servers, economies of scale also increase. Multi-instance enables you to share the cost of a server across multiple

customers. Further productivity economies and enhancements and may be gained by adopting multi-tenant SaaS, or

replacing proprietary commercial software along with open source software services. And further we could see that

Web services provide a prospect for integration with different applications and data flows.