Here is a synopsis of an excellent article by Fergus Gloster, Senior VP EMEA, at salesforce.com, Busting the Myths About SaaS:

A recent conference in Dublin heard that a third of traditional software projects fail. CIOs in large organisations are under increasing pressure from business units to deliver usable technology more quickly. As markets slow, business users can ill afford to wait around for 18 months while an on-premises software development is rolled out.

Speed, ease of implementation, no capital investment costs and rapid return on investment have been the driving force behind the growth of Software as a Service (SaaS). But can it deliver to enterprise the benefits it has demonstrated across SMEs?

I believe there are four great myths when it comes to enterprise implementation of SaaS…

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Here are several excerpts from an article by Zach Church a News Writer with SearchCIO-Midmarket.com, SaaS: The (Data Center) Killer App:

Build an IT shop without servers.

It’s a novel idea, more a suggestion than a reality. But it is – albeit to the extreme — the concept behind the long-past-budding Software as a Service (SaaS) industry.

Why, the SaaS vendors ask, should CIOs burden themselves with hardware, maintenance and in-house headaches? Why not have someone else do it for you? You can log into your applications from the Web. And you could save money.

SaaS may have been just a buzzword a few years ago, but the success of Salesforce.com made the model appear more realistic. SAP AG put a lot of effort into Business ByDesign, the company’s hosted ERP for the midmarket.

The list goes on, and to top it off, major tech companies are banding together to take advantage of the SaaS onslaught.

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