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March 31, 2010 from The Enterprise System Spectator – “…The overhead and expense, even with Lawson’s new offering on Amazon’s cloud, will be far above what SaaS providers experience. True multi-tenant SaaS providers, such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite, make changes once, and the entire customer base experiences them instantly. This is especially a benefit to users of HRM and financial management systems (two of Lawson’s horizontal sweet spots), where regulatory changes are not optional…”
180 View – There are really 3 different delivery models for software:
- On Premise (Software is installed and run on customer’s hardware)
- On Demand or SaaS (Customer accesses a single instance of the software over the web that allows multiple customers to coexist by a multi-tenant architecture)
- Hosted (Software is accessed on demand, but lacking a multi-tenant architecture and requires separate servers and installs for each customer)
The author of the article believes that SasS is the future and Lawson better adapt it or it will be eaten by competitors such as Workday and Intacct. I think that there is a place for all 3 models. Hosted makes more sense than SaaS for organizations that don’t want their system updated with everyone else.
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