What is SaaS?
Software as a Service or on-demand software is a way of delivering applications to the end-user over the internet. Thanks to this model, those apps can provide great advantages for most businesses, primarily in costs and flexibility.
It is generally subscription-based model and has no up-front licence fees resulting in lower initial costs. The SaaS provider manages the IT infrastructure that is running the software, which brings down fees for hardware and software maintenance.
All you need to access a application in this model is a browser and an internet connection. This is generally available on a wide range of devices and from anywhere in the world, making SaaS more accessible than the traditional business software installation.
Providers offers many subscription options and flexibility to change subscriptions as and when needed, eg when your business grows, or more users need to access the service.
The application is already installed and configured in the cloud. This minimises common delays resulting from often lengthy traditional software deployment.
At the very first, you need to define, what are you looking for!
Maybe your sales department has some problems with categorizing customers or a customer service team works directly from their mailbox?
There are plenty of different products which covers almost every business area. If you need some specific like CRM or
Project management app, choose the one from the most
known! There is a space for flexibility! if application doesn’t fit your needs, just replace it with another one.
In a legacy system, you had to buy some expensive hardware, the big cost of entry is a domain of an old IT systems.
These days, before you will decide, you can try!
Most of SaaS products offers a month of trial.
So… you can decide after you will be a hundred percent sure!
The deployment process of business apps, wouldn’t be a horrible time! Most players on the market for instance offer their support and help during the transition from the old software.
Those type of products offers a lot of automatizations, and often, the possibility to synchronize with the other apps.
In conclusion, you could have an IT department which knows everything, but doesn’t be scared! ask for help if it will be needed.
Start with a small subset of users… let’s say 10% if your employees will say that they fell in love, you know that this was a good step! in other words expand it.
SaaS model offers scalability,
When something works well, just give it to the others. Scalability also means that you can control the costs of infrastructure, Pay as you go!
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