"In hindsight, the decision turned out to be something of a no-brainer,
says Anthony King, CIO for the medical diagnostics equipment manufacturer. "SaaS
beats the alternative in maintenance, training, user flexibility and several
other key areas," he says.
As the leading magazine for the CIO, I'm often surprised how uninterested CIO
Magazine has been in SaaS. To read some other tech publications, one might
think that SaaS has already taken over. It's happening, but to those of us
in the trenches, what seems like a no-brainer decision - especially for
non-critical business functions - clearly isn't a no-brainer yet for many
businesses. So, we'll keep telling everybody until they believe!
The CIO article quotes Robert DeSisto, an applications industry analyst at
Gartner, who predicts that "by 2011, 25 percent of new business software will be
delivered as a service."
In the fast-moving world of web content management, where almost 50% of the
market says that they will consider a CMS purchase in the next 18 months,
adoption will be much quicker.
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