SaaS-ing the Manufacturing Opportunity
P.J. Jakovljevic - January 10, 2007

The Need for New Delivery Models

Recently ordained the topic du jour, it is now apparent that software as a service (SaaS) (or on demand hosted delivery) models of enterprise applications are not the passing fads that the Y2K or dot-com phenomena of the late 1990s were. The rationale thereof, however, depends on whom one asks for an opinion (that is, whether the opinion comes from someone of the burgeoning SaaS camp or from the traditional and still dominant perpetual license-and-install on-premise camp). The reasons for on demand hosted delivery models of enterprise applications becoming a full-fledged paradigm shift, according to the SaaS proponents, are the hyped (and often confirmed) benefits for user businesses...