Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Applications available on
demand on a
Subscription basis.
• Big fast machines in some else’s data centre running an
application that we access using our web browser.
• Someone else owns the application and we pay a subscription
fee.
• Software deployed as a hosted service and accessed over the
Internet.
• as opposed to: “on premise”
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Whyadopt
Why adoptSaaS?
SaaS?
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Multi-Tenancy
Multi-Tenancy
• Business apps are provided as a copy to their client
companies.
• But with cloud computing, it’s a single app for all the client
companies.
• And its flexible enough for every1 to customize it.
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SharedServices
Shared Services
SaaS
Provider
SaaS
Hoster
Shared Services: e.g. Billing, Metering, SLA Monitoring…
a.k.a. SO Infra, Service Delivery Platform, OSS/BSS
# of Customers
BigDeal
Big Deal3:3:Monetization
MonetizationOptions
Options
• Subscription (monthly fee per seat)
• Transaction based pricing (profit sharing)
• Ad-based revenue (e.g. pay per click)
BigDeal
Big Deal4:4:Humans
Humansare
arecostly
costly
Reduce human intervention
• No Direct Sales (but referrals and breadth marketing)
• Self Provisioning
• Self Customization
• Delegate Administration
• Automatic billing
SaaSArchitecture
SaaS Architecture
SaaSEvolution
SaaS Evolution
DeliveryPlatform
Delivery Platform––Managed
ManagedHosting
Hosting