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• Money Savings:
– Lower IT costs.
• When you subscribe to a SaaS application, you avoid the overhead associated with
implementing conventional software.
– Economies of scale
• Subscription costs for SaaS applications reflect the economies of scale achieved by
“multi-tenancy.”
– Pay as you go
• When you subscribe to a SaaS application, you pay a monthly or annual subscription fee.
• Time Savings:
– Avoiding lengthy implementation means deployment time tends to be much shorter with a
SaaS application than a traditional one.
“The prices of
computation begin
at around $500 per
MCPS for manual
computations and
decline to around
$6x10–11 per MCPS
by 2006 (all in
2006 prices), which
is a decline of a
factor of seven
Two Centuries of Productivity Growth in Computing
trillion.”
WILLIAM D. NORDHAUS
Journal of Economic History, March 2007
Why now? (versus then…) cont
• As computing power
increased while cost
declined:
– Computation housed
centrally in large multi- “Prices for the 9370, which
user mainframes I.B.M. first shipped last
summer, range from $68,000
– Multi-user minicomputers, to $900,000.”
PanOptic-X OnDemand
Forecasts vary, but are significant
• Deutsche Bank
projects that the
SaaS market will
be $30 billion by
2013. Deutsche Bank:
“Software-as-a-Service:
Credit: IDC, SaaS Market Opportunity
Opening Eyes in ’07;
Half the Market in ’13,”
This won’t affect my company…
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