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Article: SaaS gaining mindshare over license model
Posted on May 5th, 2009 No commentsJust saw this on ZDNet Asia by Victoria Ho. The article is entitled "SaaS gaining mindshare over license model", and it goes on to show that the adoption rate of SaaS is starting to heat up in the Asian-Pacific region. From the article:
"[Online distribution] has been growing well and reflects strong customer preference…it is widely accepted and considered an effective mode of interaction," he said.
Dickens added, however, that a different online distribution model, SaaS, is picking up in adoption rate due to its touted benefits such as lower total cost of ownership, quick deployment and lowered risk of implementation.
Different from software sold online, which is, downloaded or activated online but still installed on-premise, SaaS provides software accessible as a service over the Internet, with no installation of it on customers’ hardware.
Stable broadband connectivity in the region is also helping boost interest in SaaS for HP, he said.
And SaaS lifts the burden of managing customer licenses and delivering software maintenance from vendors’ shoulders too, said Dickens.
The article goes on to say that it is the "customer interest in SaaS’ "greater value proposition" that is pulling vendors to answering this demand." Additionally, widespread piracy of download-and-install software is making vendors make the move to the SaaS model.
