Depending upon how an application is combined with elastic infrastructure, the function of the cloud service could change from Infrastructure as a Service to Software as a Service.
What Kimera is trying to do is offer a type of AI called neural networks on demand through a service as a software (SaaS) model.
Beginning with the well-known Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) structure, Gartner added in a Business and Information Systems layer that includes brokerages, management and security.
The computing giant has already weathered several quarters with surprisingly strong earnings, thanks in large part to its focus on services like managed data centers--which many customers are using so that they can replace expensive employees--and software as a service, which is seen as a thrifty alternative to traditional software.
The President also heard from service companies such as software developer GalaxE.
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Yet many new processes, such as selling software as a service via the internet, have in turn enabled other innovations.
For commoditized applications that require very little care and maintenance, and offer little business value beyond their basic functionality, the cheapest way to consume these applications is as a Software as a Service (SaaS), which of course can run in the cloud.
Software as a Service companies like Salesforce.com, Ultimate Software will take the task of maintaining servers and software to maintain their enterprise systems.
As both a hardware and software service, think of Dash as a next-generation, web-enabled OnStar or LoJack on steroids.
Pure cloud computing players like Salesforce.com have an advantage over SAP as it can benefit from the expected growth of software as a service (SaaS) market.
In a recent report, Wells Fargo tech analyst Jason Maynard zeroed in on syndicated commerce as an emerging software-as-a-service category extension to ecommerce solutions.
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They're intended for network connectivity and to service as physical licence keys for software.
And then, I found out that I could subscribe to the small, but important HR application as a service from a software company.
RightNow is a Bozeman, Montana company best known for self-service web software, such as the ability to manage your own returns with a web retailer like Overstock.com.
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In a statement, Lucent Chairman and Chief Executive Henry Schacht blamed the loss on softening sales to local exchange carriers and service providers as well as lower software sales.
Analysys Mason's forecast, created as part of the Enterprise program, covers software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service.
BPO, on the other hand, is being driven by Software as a Service offerings.
By 2017, 45% of mobile cloud services will be software as a service (SaaS)-based solutions.
Because NASDAQ OMX offers SMARTS in Software as a Service (SaaS), it can be implemented relatively quickly.
First, software as a service is much harder to customise for the special needs of big firms.
Of course, even if NetSuite stumbles, Ellison has already profited from the trend toward software as a service.
One-third of them have implemented some form of Software as a Service (SaaS), such as SalesForce.com or Google Apps.
Ready-made software, service providers as well as in-house solutions are now providing business-grade security to a significant amount of business data.
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At the time, many companies used software as a service (SaaS), but cloud computing had yet to enter into public consciousness.
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With more computing moving to these software as a service models, companies no longer need to manage complex desktop PC environments.
The cloud computing market consists of software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
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The survey also finds that most cloud adopters get their feet wet with Software as a Service (SaaS) implementations, such as Salesforce.com.
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