Many
industries changed the way human used to do business and the way we human used
to do many things but any industries came and changed the world around as give
us more comfortable way to do business and daily activity.
Then one
industry came up which changed the whole system of everything and that industry
is Software Industry. This industry is a kind of revolution in the business
word, which impacted the business in any ways and garneted so much of the
opportunity in the whole world and helps in shaping the business world in a
very effective way.
After the
Software came into the picture much other industry related to software also
came in the existence and flourished like the software industry. So we can say
that the kind of opportunity software industry provided and providing none of
the industry did and will do the same.
One of the terms
which is very useful to the business world is SAAS or Software as a Software,
in the earlier days of computer was not affordable, only few companies and
government offices had computers, when the computers was becoming more
affordable than any new things popped up. Let’s see in detail, What is SaaS?
What is
SaaS?
SaaS is a
software licensing model in which any once get the access to the software if
they pay for the services; in this service the server is located remotely but
not the in house. If you want to use this service you can easily use it with
the help of any browser and internet connection irrespective of the device.
Once you subscribe of the SaaS then you will get the user name and password with
the help of that you will get the access to much application such as file
sharing, email and human resources. The most common type of SaaS is customer
relationship management or CRM.
SaaS is a
very popular form of Cloud-Computing, if you are using any kind on online tools
which you can use and change as per your requirement than consider that you are
using SaaS, the best example is Google Docs. Google Docs use and make the
changes as per our requirement. As of now 89% companies are using SaaS and in
neat future this number will grow for sure as everyone want to complete the
work with ease and on time.
Types of
SaaS
There are
various types of software which we can say is SaaS, let’s see step by step
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Enterprise
Resource Planning(ERP)
This is a
very useful SaaS type, which integrate all the functions with the organization
on one platform and helps in making the more specific strategy for the
business. This also helps in sharing any information with the organization in a
ore organized way.
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Customer
Relationship Management(CRM)
This might
be the most famous for of SaaS, which is used by almost the companies to
maintain the customer’s data and track the sales status and it also helps the
companies to automate the sales process and makes it more easy to manage.
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Email
Marketing Software
No matter if
you are big or small company you need marketing activity and it is said that
Email Marketing is one of the most effective way of marketing. Email Marketing
helps in updating the customers about the companies further moves and to do
email marketing email marketing software is the best help and the one of the
best for for SaaS.
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Accounting
Software
There is much
software related to accounting which helps in maintaining the finance part of
the company. Managing the accounting of the company might be tedious task; SaaS
products related to accounting will help in managing the accounting part
effectively.
Above mentioned
types of software are very popular in the business world; there are many others
as well such as webhosting software, human resources software. The main motto
of all such software’s is to grow the business as per your plan.
Advantages
of SaaS
SaaS has
numbers of advantages; let’s take a look some of the major advantages.
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Easy
to Access
You get the
user id and password, using this you can access the SaaS software from anywhere
in the world and can use this on any device. This gives the added advantages of
such software which is flexible to use and you can work as per your time.
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Cost
Saving
If company
is using the SaaS software than they might be saving a lot of internal IT cost
and any kind of extra cost, as you are using the software which has remote servers
and there are people who will take care of that server. In that case you don’t have
to manage the IT team and there will be no outgoing of money and there will be
saving.
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Automatic
Updates
If the software
is out dated and need any changes and update you don’t have to buy new software
and don’t have to pay anything as you must use the software but the maintenance
was done by third party and they will them self do the software updates.
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Customization
SaaS allows us
to make the changes in the software as
per our need and we can make any changes that to unlimited, whatever we feel is
good for your business we can do that and keep on adding and removing functions
as per the business need.
Disadvantages
of SaaS
Whatever
comes with advantages that come with disadvantages as well. Let’s see the
disadvantages of SaaS
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Too
much of Dependency
Too much of dependency
on the vendor is the one of the disadvantages of SaaS, if there is any problem
in the software we have wait until the vendor resolves the issue and for the updates well in the
software we have to depend on the vendor, we can say that our business is rely
on the vendors.
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Security
Issue
If we have
to use the software we were provided
with used id and password and with the help of that we use the SaaS software,
if those user id and password was leaked to someone else than it will be the
biggest security issue.
Popular
SaaS Applications
These popular
SaaS applications were used by many companies
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Salesforce
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MicroSoft
Office 365
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Box
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Google
Apps
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Amazon
Web Services
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Zendesk
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Dropbox
All above mentioned
apps are used for various purposes such as s office, customer management,
online workplace, advertising, documentation and for any other purpose.
Conclusion
SaaS is changing
the working style of the companies and making the work transparent, easy and
effective. Better use of SaaS will help the company to grow and make the company
more sophisticated.
SaaS is not only helping the companies but it is helping the economy by giving the job opportunity, now computer is a need and without computer and the software it’s almost impossible to think about the life.
