SaaS (Software as a service) is a recent discussion of the software industry, one of the most heated topics. It may be for you to save money and achieve faster software deployment, but it is not always a do not bother technology. Here is your choice SaaS application must be considered before the 12 questions.
Carrying mission-critical?
Do not use in any of your SaaS company can not do without the application of business, unless you are sure that SaaS service provider can be better than you do to support it. Consultant said: "When your entire company at all times rely on some kind of used to operate successfully, and you feel unless you personally control it otherwise can not be required when the reliability or performance, there should be no use SaaS in this application."
She said, for example, stock trading software company should be retained within the company. A large company may have more than 100 critical business operations are essential applications. But in fact, many customers apparently trust SaaS vendors the ability to support mission-critical applications. Data shows that 49% of enterprises plan to deploy mission-critical SaaS applications.
By the use of pay?
You need to watch the price of SaaS trap. We all know that software vendors obsessed with upfront license fee. The main selling points of SaaS is paid on a monthly basis, forcing manufacturers continue to improve services to enable customer satisfaction. However, the advisory body of the head of think strategies, said Jeffrey Kaplan, most SaaS vendors in effect reversed this model, forcing customers to pay in advance the cost of up to one year.
Technology blog's author Ken Boasso writes: "Traditional software customers hate to enjoy the benefits of the application before the surrender of their own money. When the SaaS vendors, like a traditional ISV pay an annual fee in advance, as required, or even the value of a lot of money out of 'em value 'rebate, customers need to know about SaaS and traditional software What is the difference, whether there is any disadvantage. "
The data really sit back and relax?
The deployment of SaaS services, please ensure that service providers have in the event of a disaster or manufacturers exit the market when a reliable way to backup data. If related to sensitive business data, you need to have a backup and recovery vendor contingency plans, as well as include disclosure of data on lost or severely punished terms of service agreement.
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