With the development of SOA, Federated Identity Management (Federated Identity Management), and managed integration technology, the physical location of IT resources becomes less important, and Internet infrastructure is blurring the interface within and outside the enterprise. For enterprises, how to make the development of software and hardware technology faster and easier to apply to enterprises, the rapid implementation of enterprise changing business processes, rapid integration and display of different sources of business data, has become the current enterprise application of IT technology needs to consider the problem. In the past, buying new software hardware, the way from scratch, from the requirements analysis, selection, design, development, implementation, testing to the upper limit needs, most of the need for six months to a year, in addition to high investment, slow, the risk is very large, often the project just completed, business needs have undergone great changes, Had to make major changes. Therefore, enterprises need to use SaaS software service model to reduce investment, rapid results, on-demand expansion, low management cost management applications, no need to invest a lot of money to purchase hardware, software, integrated implementation services, Low-cost, efficient way to achieve enterprise informatization, You can get most of the functionality of a packaged software through a browser with a lot of complexity and cost reduction.
For enterprise users, the advantages of SaaS are:
From the technical point of view: The enterprise no longer equipped with IT professional and technical personnel, but also to get the latest technology applications to meet the information management needs of enterprises, reducing the complexity and cost of corporate management.
In terms of Roi: In contrast to the traditional management software is usually a buyer needs to pay a substantial fee to be formally launched, the enterprise only in the relatively low "monthly fee/Annual fee" mode of investment can start to use SaaS software services, without one-time investment in place, do not occupy too much operating capital, So as to ease the pressure of enterprise funds, and do not consider the cost of depreciation, but also timely access to the latest hardware platform and the best solution. When the enterprise abandons the use of this application function for various reasons, it will not face a large number of purchased equipment, software, personnel processing problems.
From the point of view of user use, SaaS Provider is based on the customer rented software modules and the number of users to charge, so users can order according to demand software application Service module, according to the size of the company to order the user license, the number of modules and users ordered, can fully with the business development, Changes in the size of the situation at any time adjust, really do both need to use.
From the point of view of software operation, as long as the internet can be connected, employees can use the management function provided by software application at any time, any place, improve the management efficiency and facilitate the enterprise to expand its business better.
From the aspect of maintenance and management: Because the enterprise takes the business management by the way of renting, does not need the specialized maintenance and the management personnel, also does not need to pay the extra expense for the maintenance and the management personnel. To a large extent, to ease the pressure on the human and financial resources, so that it can concentrate on the core business of capital operations effectively.
While customers get huge benefits from SaaS software services, they become a huge potential market for software vendors. Because previously those who cannot afford software licensing fees or are not able to configure professional users, have become potential customers. At the same time, the software service mode can also help the manufacturers to enhance the differentiated competitive advantage, reduce the development cost and maintenance cost, accelerate the market rhythm of products or services, effectively reduce marketing costs, change their own income model, improve the relationship with customers.
Software Services (SaaS), whether for customers or manufacturers, have a strong appeal, will give customers and vendors to bring a win-win situation.
SaaS Service Customer Benefits:
(a) low risk of charging for services, flexible selection of modules,
(b) Easy to use and quick to use
(c) Flexible enabling and pausing to be used anytime, anywhere
(d) To order on demand and to choose more freely
(e) Flexibility to meet personalized user needs
(f) No need to worry about backup, maintenance, security and other technical issues
(g) Greater focus on core business for clients
(h) Product updates, upgrades faster, more convenient
(i) quasi-face-to-face use of guidance
(j) 7*24 24x7 Network Services
(k) No additional professional IT staff need to be added
(l) Significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of customers