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A small write up on what SAAS is. Software as a service is beneficial for all organizations today and it is time they should latch on to it.
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Marketing Office: 809, Agarwal Cyber Plaza – I Netaji Subhash Place, Pitampura, New Delhi – 110034 [email protected] +91 99 581 68877
Development Centre: SCO - 46, 2nd Floor, Sector-31, Main Market
Gurgaon – 122 001 Ph: 91-124-426 8131 www.saraltechnomart.com
SaaS – A Revolution
This SaaS is not the Saas of the Saas-Bahu daily soaps (serials) which is all about scheming in the
negative sense rather this is a revolutionary scheme for businesses of all sizes. It is, in fact, quite
like ‘Saans’ (breathe in Hindi) so it can pump real oxygen into businesses when it comes to
automation.
SaaS is the popular abbreviation of “Software as a Service”. This solution is an outcome of
cloud technology and its applications. Cloud computing is the use of computing resources, both
hardware and software, that are delivered as a service over a network, usually the Internet. SaaS
is a type of public cloud computing that hosts free software. SaaS makes software and associated
data hosted on a cloud accessible to users with a thin client (computer) on a web browser.
SaaS allows data to be transferred between the client and the provider via internet and the
stored data can be accessed by the client using software provided by the service provider. Start-
up costs involved in this are much less and clients may pay only for the amount of storage space
used or as per number of transactions.
SaaS has today emerged as a common delivery model for various business models like
accounting, collaboration, customer relationship management, enterprise resource
management, content management, e-mail, games and the like and revolutionizing the
automation in businesses.
SaaS, by using cloud services have been able to reduce its costs and also provide efficient
services. Companies have therefore taken to this new idea of outsourcing hardware and
software maintenance and support to the SaaS provider. This eliminates the need to install and
run the application on the cloud user's own computers simplifying maintenance and support.
In comparison to traditional software that is conventionally sold at higher prices and with
limited licenses, SaaS providers give software services on a platform for which the user has to
pay a monthly fee for unlimited/limited usage or a fee for every transaction. It allows business
to access functionalities at lower costs than their licensed copies.
Another benefit of SaaS is its ability to accommodate different users of the application while
making it appear to each that they have the application all to themselves. Virtualization of
hardware and multi-tenancy are two of SaaS’s very strong core value propositions. SaaS based
applications allow the users to work on the system from anywhere in the world, thus reducing
geographical limitations of availability of the software, hardware or service.
Marketing Office: 809, Agarwal Cyber Plaza – I Netaji Subhash Place, Pitampura, New Delhi – 110034 [email protected] +91 99 581 68877
Development Centre: SCO - 46, 2nd Floor, Sector-31, Main Market
Gurgaon – 122 001 Ph: 91-124-426 8131 www.saraltechnomart.com
SaaS is often referred to as software delivery on demand as it can be used whenever and
wherever required. Google Apps, Quickbooks Online, Microsoft Office 365 etc. are some of the
commonly used applications running on SaaS services. SaaS is expanding rapidly as many more
start-ups related to IT and ITeS emerge on the horizon and utilize these common resources to
reduce their costs and build up profit margins.
We, at Saral Technomart, provide various business applications on SaaS mode. Online
operations management (www.op2s.in ) is a cost-effective way of automating an education
institution. Complete ERP solutions for schools (www.myschool360.in ) and colleges
(www.campuserp.in ) are available on a small per-student fee basis. Therefore, the institutions
need not shell out huge capital in order to automate. Another very useful application to improve
productivity and having control over the people placed in field is called Mobile base Sales/Field
Force Management Solution (www.msfm.in ). It enables managing, reporting and tracking of
field force through mobile and web technologies with complete authentication. Cloud based
recruitment automation solution called SmartHire (www.smart-hire.in ) to automate
recruitment process which is always very data intensive.
We invite comments and case studies from our readers demonstrating the utility of cloud based
applications and solutions. If you would like to be part of this revolution, please feel free to
write to us on [email protected]
