Business Driven Technology
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Software as service:
- “SaaS” stands for “Software as a Service” where the applications are being delivered over the cloud and where the users of it pay for its use.
- It provides pre- installed and configured software package as per the requirement.
- The user needs to pay for the software package or resource that is used.
- It acts as complete package of services.
- The service provider will handle everything and does not require any subject knowledge.
- It deals with the applications such as email and social networking sites.
Business excited about using SaaS ERP systems:
The below are the reasons businesses are excited about using SaaS ERP system:
- SaaS is considered as the hosting model in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software because the ERP software applications of the firm are being placed at the servers of the vendors.
- Thus using SaaS ERP will reduce the cost of software usage, hardware usage and resource required in the managing the applications.
SaaS being trend in the business world:
The below are the reasons SaaS being hot trend in the business world:
- Before the trend of SaaS the companies used to spend large amount of money to implement and customize the specialized applications in order to satisfy the requirements of the business...
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