Saas Whitepaper, software as a service

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SaaS (Software as a Service)
Empowering Business for the Future
An Aalpha Information Systems India Pvt. Ltd. Perspective
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QUEST FOR VALUE FROM EVERY IT $
Technology leaders in large and mid sized organizations the world over are realizing that information is a critical
leverage for innovation, economy in operations and truly customer oriented business process management.
After the integration of data and application, the demand of industrial users is naturally turning to business
integration and innovation.
Yet enterprises face disappointment in the returns on these very factors from investments in advanced
enterprise wide implementations of ERP, CRM, WPM (work force performance management) and e-commerce
platforms. The value derived from these traditional on-premise systems seems to be falling over the years,
paving the way for the need for a new paradigm for service delivery platforms. Two key concerns have been
unaddressed: no respite in cost and complexity with traditional applications over time, and demand for broad-
based, on-demand consumer oriented innovations in a dynamic, increasingly Web 2.0 world.
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According to a recent Gartner study,
A $8 out of every $10 are considered
A maintenance money,
S in IT capital expenditures.
Unfortunately, on the average, investments in IT do not directly deliver business process improvement and
subsequently, competitive advantage. And this means, the end promise of traditional enterprise applications still
remains unfulfilled today: to improve the industrial chain, integrate the industrial ecological resources, and
innovate and change business models. In other, simpler words, meeting changing industry demands with
competitive advantage.
MAIN DRIVERS FOR CTO RETHINK
• Need for greater control on cost of acquisition and maintenance of solutions
• Search for stronger cost-to-value equation, and lower risk
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NEW APPROACH? NEW VALUE.
Let’s look at what happens in a typical development project. The pitfalls persist: tedious implementation and
deployment cycles with high costs, complex upgrades and high expenditure infrastructure. Hardly
collaborative, the development gets bogged down due to development queues, internal communication hurdles,
different perspectives, challenges in holding course with business logic, resource allocation and expanding
E timelines.
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R Instead of this common scenario, let’s briefly chart the wish list of most progressive CTOs. Ready-to-use
M functionality, pre-tested solution components and ready-to-deploy hosted environments at the enterprise
technologists’ disposal. Add to this the exciting assurance of fully realized, scalable, demand-matched service
components that help radically improve throughput and time-to-market.
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N SAAS DELIVERS
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Y The recent rise in SaaS (web-based, on-demand, Software-as-a-Service) adoption is shifting the focus to where
it belongs – improving business without the burden of infrastructure and unnecessary costs. SaaS model is
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based on the premise that with the Internet's complex computing model, high-performance computing could
bring about automatic management, automatic equalization, automatic restoration, uniform system image and
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R real-time monitoring so as to broadly reduce the complexity and usability of IT management.
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E It is a on-demand delivery model where software can be hosted remotely and charge on a subscription bases,
providing a fully hosted web-based solution accessible over the Internet. It allows organizations to engage,
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outsource or select a single or chosen set of business processes, instead of a complete application. This
T eliminates the need to deal with hardware, databases and additional technology infrastructure components as
E with typical software applications. Allowing enterprises to experience pre-tested utility and functionality
R necessary to meet business objectives in a dynamic business environment.
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R THE DRIVERS OF THE SAAS MARKET
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S • Globalization and borderless competition commoditizing many markets
E • Organizational imperative to deliver employee services with secure remote access
• Growing focus on user-friendliness through technologies such as broadband networking, grid
computing, virtualization, Open Source and Web 2.0
• Demand for more productivity from enterprise applications
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KEY BENEFITS OF SAAS
• Speed and flexibility
• Impressive budget management
• Improved time-to-market, thus time to value
• Depth in customer service
• Releases intellectual resources for strategic initiatives.
IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS
SaaS supports multi-dimensional collaboration, expands into new, complex areas with quick proof of concept
applications, promoting business agility, faster time-to-market, and reduced risk through plug and play utility
technologies without large investment outlays. Today, SaaS is being introduced with surprising agility in most
high growth and established sectors like BFSI, Utility, Power, Manufacturing, Travel etc., as well as new age
sectors like Web 2.0 and consumer internet technologies the world over.
COMBINES WELL WITH SOA AND WEB SERVICES
S Continuous improvements in technology and delivery capabilities make this model ideal for applying in critical
organizational initiatives involving core business functions. Whether new applications or legacy systems, a
A judicious blend of SOA, SaaS, and Web Services exposes and leverages intellectual capital in the enterprise in
all its disparate and dispersed repositories and delivers an extra-ordinary knowledge base to conduct business
A with.
S DISRUPTIVE, TRANSFORMATIVE, BENEFICIAL
Organizations interested in this new paradigm of software services delivery will be forced to rediscover core
business logic for their process environment. Business processes need to be redesigned to match customer
focus as this is exactly what SaaS platforms envision. Whether it is the backend of the organization, the
customer facing front systems or the intermediating systems in between, SaaS will reinstitute business
processes into a seamless, dynamic, multi-modal, pan-organizational system for conducting business.
AALPHA ADVANTAGE FOR YOU
We can deliver superior ROI and business sense through speedy deployment and efficient administration of
complex enterprise applications through the SaaS platform, attaching best in class capabilities to consult for,
implement, and maintain your business processes. We allow you to profitably redeploy critical resources to
meaningful, strategic initiatives, providing exciting competitive advantages in your business, with the total
assurance of Aalpha support.
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