Will SaaS be a Success ?

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a new paradigm in software delivery model
where in the software is hosted as a service in pay-per-use (on demand) mode.

Who will get benefited out of this? enterprises ? or normal users?

It’s for both. For enterprises they can reduce their IT infrastructure cost and can focus on their core business. They don’t need their software systems installed and maintained on premise.

And for users they need not buy a full software license. They need to only pay for their usage.

Interesting!! But do you think that this hosting model will cater to all the software which
is in use today?

Well, at this moment no.

But there are a few players trying to create a market in this area as follows

Salesforce.com - On demand CRM and a platform to develop applications on it

Cordys - BPM on demand with its The Process Factory Initiative.

Google
Google Apps -A suite of tools to make a website for a domain with
Google Docs, Google Spreadsheet, Calendar, Gmail, and Startpage all provisioned from Google’s Global infrastructure
Google Apps Engine – An application hosting platform on a highly scalable Architecture with Google Big Table as datastore

Amazon
EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud, Computing power on the web by
Virtualization
S3 – Simple Storage Service

Microsoft - Live Mesh –To bring your home desktop on the web


When Salesforce.com and Cordys take part in this revolution by catering their offering to enterprise with its on demand CRM and on demand BPM, Amazon EC2 offers the computing power on the web (Infrastructure as Service) through virtualization.

While Google comes with Google Apps Engine (Platform as Service) and Google Apps for small and medium enterprises, the stage becomes more vibrant.

Google envision that coming days are for webtops with computing power, applications and data on the web.

Then what will happen to the existing thick clients (desktops)?

Microsoft has answer for it with its Live Mesh .In their perspective there is no need to get rid of the existing computing power and suite of applications on thick clients, instead of that we can bring your personal desktop or office desktop, on the web as Live desktop with out loosing the rich consumer experience the desktop offers.

As the industry matures, who will be in the driving seat? Let’s wait and see…