{"id":840,"date":"2011-03-24T19:49:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerocom.vitalclients.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T23:08:02","slug":"software-as-a-service-saas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/software-as-a-service-saas\/","title":{"rendered":"Software as a Service (SaaS) Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Definition<\/strong>: Instead of purchasing software licenses for the most popular software applications and then running these software applications on internal servers, a company can simply pay a monthly fee (per user), to use that same software, accessing it through the Internet or a WAN connection. This service is called <a href=\"http:\/\/aerocominc.com\/products\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Software as a Service<\/em> <\/strong><\/span><\/a>(<strong>SaaS<\/strong>), and it is one of the fastest growing services in the IT industry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Fit<\/strong>: A business that either: A) No longer wants to own, manage and maintain a separate server (and software licenses), for some of their common software applications (such as Microsoft Office, Adobe, QuickBooks, etc.); or B) Has a culture of change and therefore, doesn\u2019t want to purchase software outright, with a high likelihood they could end up with many unused software licenses as needs quickly change.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Save capex cash for other needs. Change software from a capex cost to a monthly operating cost.<\/li>\n<li>Flexibility. Quickly scale up and down without wasted time when growing or wasted software licenses when downsizing. You only pay for what you use.<\/li>\n<li>Lower IT spending. Less money spent on purchasing, storing, managing and maintaining servers.<\/li>\n<li>Less costly downtime. Losing a major application server is much less likely in a hosted environment. Because SaaS is hosted off-site, the application is also available to all sites, regardless of what happens to a company\u2019s hub site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Available Features with Select Providers (Long List on Document)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[php snippet=7]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Definition: Instead of purchasing software licenses for the most popular software applications and then running these software applications on internal servers, a company can simply pay a monthly fee (per user), to use that same software, accessing it through<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/software-as-a-service-saas\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}