SAAS - Software As a Service
What is SAAS? Imagine you could kiss your IT nightmares goodbye and the only thing you needed to run your business is an internet connection and a basic PC.
All of your critical business applications are hosted on servers miles away that are backed up automatically by the hosting company.
All software upgrades are done on the server level by your hosting company in addition to firewalls and backup power.
There are many mass market applications that are used everyday this way. SalesForce.com reports having over 6,800 companies using their hosted solution (according to their web site).
As SAAS continues to get traction in many industries. Micro Key Solutions is evaluating when this type of technology will be adopted by the Burglar Alarm Industry. Would you be willing to make the change to reduce your IT costs?
Labels: SAAS, Security Software
posted by Wayne Torrens @ 11:45 AM
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Here is something interesting on this subject.
Computerworld New Zealand on August 22, 2007
Gartner expects SaaS to grow at 22.1 percent until 2011 for the aggregate enterprise application software markets. The analyst firm predicts that 63 percent of products in the software infrastructure market and 56 percent in the software application market will support Web services.
I think SaaS is a good idea for people on the go, and non-critical solutions. However, we are dealing with life safety and property protection. The more we use the internet the faster a connection we need and the more we depend on hard dedicated lines. If a telephone pole is taken out a block from the CS, guess what you are out of commission. Everyday we keep adding more and more radio clients that realize the importance of another means of communication.
Dave, It would not really be intended for Central Stations, just Alarm Dealer's who are using a third party central station like yours.
Thanks for you input. Wayne
It is not uncommon for companies of all sizes, but especially smaller ones, to create process flow around the functionality of the software they use. Migrating to a new version just because the software service upgrades could be a traumatic change that requires lots of pre-planning to make it work. I would have to see an SLA detailing how subscribers could control their software version (up to a reasonable level) before this would work for us.
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