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How exactly does SaaS work? Please explain

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SaaS refers to Software as a Service. It offers Software application as a service to the user. It provides all the services by the internet. You can say that SaaS is a software distribution model which is provided by third party which hosts the application and provide these applications to customers on demand by using the internet. SaaS can be categorized into three categories :

Cloud computing
Infrastructure as a service
Platform as a service.

Appications of SaaS:

These are the applications of SaaS:

It is used in Customer relation management through cloud for example sales force.
It is used in help desk too much.
Used for HR solution.
Also used in Billing and invoicing.

Step 2

Now let’s discuss how SaaS works:

For this, you need a cloud provider which is provided by any company which have some physical resources as shown in the diagram:

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