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- Nov. 7th: SAP's Best Kept Secret?
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Navigator Business Solutions
July 12: SAP SaaS/On-Demand
One can hardly turn a page in a business journal today without reading about the
business advantages of Software as a Service, or SaaS. Right now, SaaS seems to
be everywhere you look. And the reason is pretty simple. SaaS provides a more
cost-effective alternative for enterprises to achieve their business objectives than
traditional packaged applications. At the same time SaaS alleviates many of the
responsibility of managing the hardware, software, networks, and people that are
“behind the scenes” of small and mid-sized enterprise business operations.
SaaS business solutions are advantageous in many ways. They are more affordable
and implemented more quickly. The modular functionality of SaaS solutions is
fairly easy to extend, modify, and integrate with on-premise vendor software in the
current generation of SaaS. Because SaaS subscription pricing includes all of the
underlying data center infrastructure, and the upgrades and new releases, you can
focus on your business with the confidence that everything is being managed for
you. All you need is a browser and access to the Internet. The rest is in the cloud.
However, SaaS solutions may not be right for every smaller or mid-sized firm. You
may wish to consider a traditional vendor software license if the required functionality
is directly tied to the core value your business provides. Or, if you have already
invested significantly in internal IT, and your internal IT is closely connected
to the value you provide. Or, if regulations require the data you manage to remain
behind your firewall, and the SaaS solution cannot support that.
Conversely, if your company has a limited capital budget, limited information technology
support, or a distributed workforce in a sales- or service-oriented business,
you probably should consider SaaS.
SaaS should be approached no differently than any other important purchase—you
need to be sure of what you are getting. You need to be sure you are not going to
burden your IT group with more work. You need to be sure that the SaaS solution
you choose will deliver all the benefits you expect.
A small or mid-sized firm considering SaaS to replace or supplement on-premise
vendor software should take care to ensure that the SaaS solution under consideration
is the most appropriate one. And, in order to ensure getting the same quality of
solution you have come to expect from on premise software, small and mid-sized
firms should evaluate SaaS solutions carefully.
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