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As a new method of delivering software to the enterprise, Software as a Service (SaaS) marks the decline of the software-licensing era. SaaS is gradually reshaping the competitive framework in the enterprise application market, and SaaS application vendors are growing faster than traditional ISVs. SaaS is an emerging software delivery model in which application software is delivered remotely through a subscription-based fee rather than being sold for perpetual use. Companies in India are increasingly looking at delivery and collaboration of software over the Web. Although different providers are approaching SaaS in different ways (SOA, On Demand, etc), they will ultimately belong to the same pool of SaaS.
TechAxes Business Model for SaaS
TechAxes and customer agree on reporting and analysis needs, fix the output requirements, and contract for delivery of those output requirements. The customer sends the data to the TechAxes (or TechAxes reaches into the company’s infrastructure layer to extract it) on a regular basis, where it gets assimilated into the reporting and analytic package the company accesses through named users. Extensions to the model are done through change requests, each requiring a development and delivery cycle, SLA, and license model.It essentially acts as an outsource service supplier. TechAxes takes data from customers and delivers back analysis used to make decisions.
The Benefits
Technology becomes simple to use - the core of user preference in almost all surveys that are about latest technologies.
Legacy BI vendors continue to peddle over-complicated, yet incomplete BI applications at exorbitant prices. Customers are really looking for simple, quick-to-deploy and reasonably-priced solutions. The beauty of on-demand is it requires fewer resources to manage applications and infrastructure. It does not need as many people to manage and watch databases, web servers, applications servers— all that managed by the software vendors.
Many customers believe that they are only using very limited capabilities of their software although they are paying 100 per cent of it. These customers are over-served. The subscription model by SaaS will enable customers to have a computing environment that scales up or down as demand dictates, with a seamlessness and continuity that minimise or eliminates disruption for end users, and with flexible pricing.
Another benefit is escape from the application-upgrade treadmill, where customers wait years for big new revs and then suffer business interruption during deployment. SaaS providers incrementally swap in new functionality, streaming new innovations to all customers at once, keeping the UI as consistent as possible.
Also, as broadband Internet access becomes widespread, it is easier and more cost-effective for companies to access applications over the web.
Business Intelligence as SaaS
. The spectrum covers following components -
BI products—Tools that provide information gathering, analytics, and presentation of data to end users.
Analytic infrastructure—Infrastructure to store, organize, and prepare data for reporting and analysis.
Dashboard and scorecards—Tools and/or applications that help businesses track key performance indicators (KPIs) by providing a unified view of organizational performance data and options on a timed or near real-time and integrated basis.
Planning, budgeting, and forecasting (PBF) products—Applications that provide a business with a high degree of flexibility to align financial and/or operational plans to its specific enterprise or departmental planning processes.
Analytic applications—Delivered applications that accurately gather, unify, coordinate, and analyze company-wide or content-specific data. Financial consolidation and reporting is an example of this type of application.
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