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.
Yet many new processes, such as selling software as a service via the internet, have in turn enabled other innovations.
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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To enter the American market, Temenos acquired TriNovus which runs core banking and compliance software as a service for about 20 U.S. banks.
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Software as a Service companies like Salesforce.com, Ultimate Software will take the task of maintaining servers and software to maintain their enterprise systems.
But there can be downsides and potential risks when relying on a third party to provide infrastructure, platforms, or software as a service.
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Consumerization, virtualization, cloud computing, software as a service, mobility are all increasing the complexity of the job of managing IT by orders of magnitude.
Software as a Service is providing a similar challenge to consumerization.
Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service: how many companies other than Oracle offer that full range of cloud services?
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Drupal Gardens is combining principles of open source to the Software as a Service model to find a way to get the best of both worlds.
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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.
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.
Its business now helps brands build relationships with customers and better manage and view the customer journey throughout the purchase lifecycle via their SaaS (software as a service) platform.
End-users and departments are choosing their own devices, selecting and using Software as a Service applications and other cloud resources, and generally doing end-arounds to bypass the IT function whenever they feel like it.
Successful organizations of the future will be more outwardly focused, scanning the horizon for emerging SaaS (software as a service) and IaaS (infrastructure as a service) capabilities that can be a source of competitive advantage.
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Net platform, which aims to fulfill a "software as a service" vision: namely, Windows-based cards powering mobile phones -- not considered a good fit for Windows CE -- and Pocket PCs that are connected to Exchange servers.
Dries Buytaert, the Belgian wunderkind who created Drupal, started Drupal Gardens because he saw that Software as a Service could be combined with a declarative configuration model to make the process of creating web sites so much easier.
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.
The largest consumer product companies have seen their chief marketing officers engage with software as a service (SaaS) providers to design and run their outbound marketing programs to launch new products and animate their loyalty programs, without a word with their internal IT organizations.
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