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Thanks to the public cloud, which has amassed around $150 billion in annual revenues, the software as a service model has grown tremendously. In fact, it\u2019s grown by approximately 20 percent a year for the past five years. The public cloud currently houses over a third of all applications used worldwide, making it a significant contributor to the success of software as a service (SaaS). Has your organization begun to take advantage of this phenomenon?<\/p>\n
What is SaaS?<\/strong> The Benefits of SaaS<\/strong> Issues with SaaS<\/strong>
\nSaaS is a software that is accessed through the Internet. This is often provided through a service provider, a developer of the software or a third party authorized to sell or distribute it under certain conditions. The user can use the software as indicated in the service level agreement for a monthly fee. The cloud provider is responsible for hosting, management, maintenance, development, and security of the application, making it both an attractive and hands-off approach for businesses.<\/p>\n
\nA change from on-premise software hosting delivers three distinct benefits for your business. They are the following:<\/p>\n\n
\nNothing is perfect, even though it seems SaaS provides perhaps the biggest edge you can think of for a software solution. Some organizations must adhere to compliance regulations, which can in-turn affect cloud-based deployment of specific data or functionality. Since most cloud-based SaaS offerings are deployed through the public cloud, users\u2019 applications are accessed using shared resources, which might rub some organizations the wrong way. Here are some of the major problems created by SaaS:<\/p>\n