The growing value of software as a service (SaaS) to businesses has been highlighted once again by a prominent media organisation.
In an article for the BBC, business editor Tim Weber claims that cloud computing and SaaS is going ‘mainstream’ and that organisations are seeing it as a way of cutting their capital expenditure.
Mr Weber also lays out the main reasons for the popularity of SaaS, including the cost-effectiveness, the scalability, mobility and the fact that services are always kept up to date.
The author adds: “Cloud computing can be applied nearly anywhere - the small retailer that needs a secure e-commerce website quickly and cheaply, the ferry operator that has huge computing spikes in May and June while 90 per cent of its IT system idle the rest of the year or the fire service that needs extra computing power to predict the movement of forest fires during the summer.”
Businesses reluctant about adopting SaaS were recently advised to dip their feet in the water first by trying non-critical services.