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I wouldn't say Cloud Computing and SaaS are buzz words at heart, rather they were names given to this new style of computing and application development. They are buzz words now in the sense that the Cloud is a hot topic right now, but just like any other form of Technology, a name is adopted to be used and recognized by the mass market. Real cloud computing applications have only been around since the innovation of web 2.0 websites which facilitate the use of the applications in the cloud.
Benefits of the Cloud for your business:
Lets look at it this way. If you are running a company that uses 10, 20, or even 100 business applications - this is going to require a large amount of infrastructure and dedicated resources to maintain. According to many studies, most companies spend about 70% of their budget towards maintaining the hardware and software they have in place, leaving only 30% of their budget and time to work on innovation, projects, or new products. The beauty of a multi-tenant architecture, and I am talking true multi-tenancy - is that all instances of an application run on the same code infrastructure. Well what does that mean to an end user? What that means is that instead of supporting past models of the application every time new functionality is released or patches are applied, SaaS companies with multi-tenant infrastructures need only to support 1 version of the application. That means they can concentrate on innovation rather than supporting past models. That also means when new changes are rolled out to end users, this will not affect any integrations that have been built out ofr their specific instance of the application. How many times has your company rolled out a security patch for an on-premise solution just to see integrations fail because of changes to the fundamental coding of the application? This happens all the time, and is completely avoidable with the SaaS/multi-tenancy model. Our company rolls out 3-4 new releases every year and we do so seamlessly (5 minutes of downtime in the middle of the night). All of your integrations are preserved and you never see problems as a result. So an end user will constantly have the latest and greatest functionality on their application without the headache of integration failures or other disruptions. How many new releases do you see for an on premise application each year? Maybe one, if that. The reason for that is that whenever they develop new functionality they are having to build it out for all the different prior versions of their application to make it accessible to all of their customers. If you have 8 prior versions, that means you need to code that functionality for 8 different applications instead of a single application.
I know there is a lot of skepticism out there about Cloud computing with people concerned about security, but if you look at the marketplace trend almost every large software company is now developing Cloud applications in conjunction with their on-premise applications. Microsoft, Oracle, etc., etc.
The difference between my company and those companies is they are still locked into developing and supporting on premise solutions, slowing down their innovation. My company is strictly SaaS, which is why we are a market leader in the Industry. I'd like to see Microsoft put out 3 major releases in one year for any of its products (and I'm not talking security patches, hahahaha).
Benefits of the Cloud for your business:
Lets look at it this way. If you are running a company that uses 10, 20, or even 100 business applications - this is going to require a large amount of infrastructure and dedicated resources to maintain. According to many studies, most companies spend about 70% of their budget towards maintaining the hardware and software they have in place, leaving only 30% of their budget and time to work on innovation, projects, or new products. The beauty of a multi-tenant architecture, and I am talking true multi-tenancy - is that all instances of an application run on the same code infrastructure. Well what does that mean to an end user? What that means is that instead of supporting past models of the application every time new functionality is released or patches are applied, SaaS companies with multi-tenant infrastructures need only to support 1 version of the application. That means they can concentrate on innovation rather than supporting past models. That also means when new changes are rolled out to end users, this will not affect any integrations that have been built out ofr their specific instance of the application. How many times has your company rolled out a security patch for an on-premise solution just to see integrations fail because of changes to the fundamental coding of the application? This happens all the time, and is completely avoidable with the SaaS/multi-tenancy model. Our company rolls out 3-4 new releases every year and we do so seamlessly (5 minutes of downtime in the middle of the night). All of your integrations are preserved and you never see problems as a result. So an end user will constantly have the latest and greatest functionality on their application without the headache of integration failures or other disruptions. How many new releases do you see for an on premise application each year? Maybe one, if that. The reason for that is that whenever they develop new functionality they are having to build it out for all the different prior versions of their application to make it accessible to all of their customers. If you have 8 prior versions, that means you need to code that functionality for 8 different applications instead of a single application.
I know there is a lot of skepticism out there about Cloud computing with people concerned about security, but if you look at the marketplace trend almost every large software company is now developing Cloud applications in conjunction with their on-premise applications. Microsoft, Oracle, etc., etc.
The difference between my company and those companies is they are still locked into developing and supporting on premise solutions, slowing down their innovation. My company is strictly SaaS, which is why we are a market leader in the Industry. I'd like to see Microsoft put out 3 major releases in one year for any of its products (and I'm not talking security patches, hahahaha).
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