Software As A Service
- 1. The Role of SaaS (Software as a Service) in Business May 13 th 2008 Adam Smith, Dir Marketing Kevin Doherty, Managing Dir www.Phase2Int.com
- 2. SaaS Technology Overview and business impact
- 3. Burden’s Wheel 1851 Out produced Competition for Nails, Horseshoes, Spikes Won Civil War Contracts
- 4. Sam Insull vs Thomas Edison Electricity 100 years go Mirrored Software Today
- 5. Electricity as a utility available from a grid Shaped the 20 th Century
- 6. Information Processing Revolution Herman Hollerith & Punch-Card Tabulator
- 7. UNIVAC 1950s IBM 701 1960s and 70s Client-Server 1980s through today
- 8. Moore’s Law – Computing Power Doubles each 18 months Grove’s Law - Bandwidth doubles each century
- 9. Breaking Grove’s Law and Moore’s Law holding true enabled SaaS
- 10. Google’s “The Dalles” Data Center 2006
- 11. SaaS Benefits Focusing on your core competency Cost savings -Usability
- 12. Initial Skepticism on SaaS “ How reliable will it be?” “ Is it fast enough?” “ What happens if you go out of business?” “ Can I customize it?” “ Can I integrate it?” “ Is it secure?” “ What if I’m lose my connection?”
- 13. SaaS Poster Child 2002 ~ $50 million 2007 ~ $500 million
- 14. In the Cloud Software Hardware Platform
- 15. Enabling Technologies Multi-Tenancy Virtualization Web Services Ajax
- 16. In practice at Phase2int.com SaaS SharePoint Customer Hub for decentralized workforce Mashup of MSFT webparts, 3 rd party web services, and custom Phase 2 code. Pays per month, no contracts. Live and die on performance and service.
- 17. Recommended Reading and credit…