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Article: Software as a Service (SaaS) it adds up! We all have been taught by our parents from a young age that sharing is a good thing! Software as a Service (SaaS) is based on the principle of sharing; in this case the sharing of resources, computer hardware, knowledge and most importantly the sharing of cost.(Information Technology)(Company overview)
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- Accountancy Ireland
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- June 1, 2006
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Software-as-a-service is here to stay, but it has evolved in a more
organic way than was predicted by the early evangelists of the ASP
model. We are getting near the point where software buyers will
routinely tick a box to say if they want to install products on their
own computers or to log onto them through the internet.
Sofware Focus, Enterprise Ireland, 15 Dec. 2005.
SaaS is an evolution from the old ASP model that emerged and then
fizzled in the mid to late 1990s. Although SaaS appears similar to ASP,
it differs in that the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) is now
providing their own application as a service, rather than depending on a
third party to aggregate a ...