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Software as a service (SaaS / s æ s / [1]) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. [2] SaaS is usually accessed via a web application.
"X as a service" (rendered as *aaS in acronyms) is a phrasal template for any business model in which a product use is offered as a subscription-based service rather than as an artifact owned and maintained by the customer. The converse of conducting or operating something "as a service" is doing the same using "on-premise" assets (such
In the same year, Google launched Google Docs, a SaaS model to edit and save documents online. In 2007, Netflix launches its online video streaming service, the first SaaS streaming site. [ 15 ] Also, IBM and Google partnered with universities-- University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, Stanford, University of Maryland, and UC ...
Software industry business models include SaaS (subscription-based), PaaS (platform services), IaaS (infrastructure services), and freemium (free with premium features). Others are perpetual licenses (one-time fee), ad-supported (free with ads), open source (free with paid support), pay-per-use (usage-based), and consulting/customization services.
Hosted applications: From the 1990s traditional application service providers (ASPs) hosted (then-existing) applications on behalf of their customers. Depending on the limitation of the underlying application, ASPs were forced to host applications on separate machines (if multiple instances of the applications could not be executed in the same ...
In the 1990s, Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI) and Time Warner scrapped efforts to create internal billing software and hired CSG International. [11] The 15-year agreement CSG signed with TCI on August 11, 1997 [ 13 ] made CSG the largest vendor in the industry [ 6 ] and was the primary contributor to its growth in the '90s. [ 13 ]
The Sage Group plc, commonly known as Sage, is a British multinational enterprise software company based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.As of 2017, it is the UK's second largest technology company, [3] the world's third-largest supplier of enterprise resource planning software (behind Oracle and SAP), the largest supplier to small businesses, and has 6.1 million customers worldwide. [4]
The term enterprise software is used in industry, and business research publications, but is not common in computer science.The term was widely popularized in the early 1990s by major software vendors in conjunction with licensing deals with the show Star Trek [3] In academic literature no coherent definition can be found.