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SaaS (Software as a Service) is a model of software deployment where an application is licensed for use as a service provided to customers on demand via the Internet.
SaaS Benefits:
  • On demand licensing and use alleviates the customer's burden of equipping a device with every application.
  • SaaS also reduces traditional End User License Agreement (EULA) software maintenance, ongoing operation patches, and patch support complexity.
  • SaaS enables licensing only the amount of software needed versus traditional licenses per device.
  • SaaS enables the buyer to share licenses across their organization and between organizations, to reduce the cost of acquiring EULAs for every device in their firm.
  • SaaS also reduces investment in server hardware , disaster recovery systems, back-up procedures, and additional personnel traditionally associated with on-premise solutions.



On-premises Software is installed and run on computers on the premises (in the building) of the person or organization using the software, rather than at a remote facility, such as at a server farm somewhere on the Internet. On-premises software is sometimes referred to as "shrink-wrap" software, and off-premises software is commonly called "software as a service" or "computing in the cloud."

Cloud computing is Internet ("cloud") based development and use of computer technology ("computing"). It is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them.

The concept incorporates platform as a service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Web 2.0 and other recent (ca. 2008-2009) technology trends which have the common theme of reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users. Examples include Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, and Google Apps which provide common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers.

PaaS (Platform as a Service) is an outgrowth of the Software as a Service application delivery model. The PaaS model makes all of the facilities required to support the complete life cycle of building and delivering web applications and services entirely available from the Internet—with no software downloads or installation for developers, IT managers or end-users. It's also known as cloudware.

PaaS offerings include workflow facilities for application design, application development, testing, deployment and hosting as well as application services such as team collaboration, web service integration and marshalling, database integration, security, scalability, storage, persistence, state management, application versioning, application instrumentation and developer community facilitation. These services are provisioned as an integrated solution over the web.