SaaS set for rapid growth from 2009-2012
Author: admin December 7, 2008
Analysts Gartner are predicting that SaaS enterprise applications will more than double by 2012 to $14.8 billion with demand being strong in 2008 and predicted to be even stronger in 2009. End of year predictions for SaaS in the enterprise in 200s are fora 27% growth.
The core proposition of SaaS is the delivery of multi-tenant servcies from a remote location over an Internet Protocol network via a subscription or outsourcing based contract.
Gartner states that the fastest growing markets for SaaS are office suites and digital content creation.
Gartner seems to be making a reasonable (no brainer) assumption. In an economic downturn one can expect organisations to turn to solutions that offer OpEx rather than CapEx expenditure as well as limting the liability they have by having an ability to turn services on/off on demand. Also the maturing of the market means that there is less risk now in using these services. For example Google now guarantess 99.9% uptime for its online Apps and Amazon has also now issues SLA’s for its S3 storage services.
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