SaaS to change the traditional concept of enterprise CIO

With the rapid development of the Internet, various traditional industries have begun to use the power of the Internet to expand their traditional business, from the involvement of E-commerce to software and the Internet integration, the traditional software industry is facing from the Internet business model to change. SaaS (software as a service) came into being, with the exception of online software providers such as Salesforce and Gold Abacus, and software and internet giants such as Microsoft and Google began to try and develop SaaS. However, if SaaS is more of a challenge to software vendors than traditional software, SaaS is more of a means of conceptual change and application performance improvement for CIOs.

SaaS to solve the dilemma of enterprise informatization

In the current high-speed development of the Internet period, only the full use of Internet resources, enterprises can further enhance their core competitiveness. In the application of information, most enterprises have realized the importance of using informatization to enhance their core competence.

But most SMEs and some large enterprises, in the informatization still have many difficulties: the first is the high cost of enterprise management software and implementation costs, followed by the hardware costs, and finally there is later maintenance and use of human and other resources input. More prominent problem is that enterprise software implementation of the biggest risk is due to inadequate demand research, or information technology Department of the business bias to understand, and the software is very limited availability, which is a very serious loss for enterprises.

Because of the good solution to the above problems, SaaS approach is gradually recognized by the majority of users. The utility model has the advantages of small investment, quick effect, easy control cost and no need of later maintenance, and also makes the traditional software business optimistic about the development of SaaS market.

SaaS enables CIOs to face triple shifts

Not only do vendors focus on the development of SaaS, but some visionary CIOs are also looking forward to the SaaS model. Put some of the low-level transactional work in the past to the SaaS service provider and let the CIO devote more time to other tasks. SaaS has brought new work content to CIOs, and it has also led CIOs to face a triple shift in mindset.

First of all, at the strategic level, the CIO should change from the former role of enterprise strategic service to active strategic thinking, using the most appropriate information technology to help enterprises enhance the core competitiveness.

Second, at the management level, CIOs need to recognize the general trend of SaaS and conform to this trend. Think more about how to use professional IT services to increase your ROI: What works for outsourcing, which software is suitable for SaaS, and which needs to be purchased and implemented, and these issues will become a more focused issue for CIOs.

Finally, at the decision-making level, the CIO should try to improve the grasp of the science and technology market and the collection of decision information as close as possible to the core business of the enterprise. The use of professional science and technology information consulting service providers to master their own relevant technology market trends, combined with their own core business understanding of the enterprise, scientific decision-making. This is the value of a new generation of enterprise CIOs.