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| The Software as a Service Story
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Back to the Future
Enabled by the Internet, Software as a Service, or SaaS, has resurged recently, but it is really the oldest software delivery method.
Originally used by data service bureaus after WWII, SaaS enabled businesses of all sizes to perform routine transactional processes like A/P and Payroll with a computer, but without the cost of the machine itself and the personnel to run and maintain it.
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Of course without the Internet, the original SaaS firms keypunched from paper input. And they were very stingy about output, since any data extract or report was a special mainframe job that a computer room technician had to submit.
The advent of the Internet brought Distributed Computing to a whole new level, leading businesses of all sizes, and in all industries, to question the cost of computing. The answer was the resurgence of SaaS.
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SaaS helps bring a business out from under the weight of System Costs - the weight of infrastructure and infrastructure maintenance. Business Owners say "We need sales transactions, but we don't need servers, operating systems and databases - it's like asking an individual business to run its own road and traffic system."
Data security became paramount in recent years. SaaS also provides a solution to data security, data risk, disaster recovery and business continuity issues. The SaaS provider, NetSuite, stores the data on the best available machines, operating systems and databases in a highly secure and redundant data center, enabling a level of Security for which large companies pay enormous sums, and which Small and Medium Businesses could simply not afford on their own.
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SaaS solves a myriad of problems for businesses, and it also creates Opportunities. Anytime Anywhere access to your data enables every person in the organization to work productively regardless of where work takes them.
The nexus of our businesses is now the Internet. The Internet is a medium to find customers and enable customers to find us. In house client-server systems are not easily linked to the Internet, so it is impossible for them to benefit from the Internet's opportunities.
A system like NetSuite built on the rock solid Oracle platform, but available through an Internet connection and web browser combines the best of security, data risk mitigation and business continuity with a seamless link to the power of the Internet.
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