Professional Documents
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Historical Developments
Module 1
Historical Developments
Software-as-a-Service
• inherited from application service providers (ASPs)
• The SaaS approach reaches its full development with service-oriented
computing (SOC)
– loosely coupled software components can be exposed and priced
singularly, rather than entire applications.
• This allows the delivery of complex business processes and transactions as a
service while allowing applications to be composed on the fly and services to
be reused from everywhere and by anybody
4. Service-oriented computing
• Web Services