There are five major benefits to Software-as-a-Service, otherwise known as hosted software solutions. When you subscribe to a software service rather than software licenses, you:
- Save money
- Save time
- Focus your technology budgets on competitive advantage rather than infrastructure
- Gain immediate access to the latest innovations
- Quick support
Save Money
Several factors contribute to making it considerably less expensive to implement a SaaS application than a traditional on-premises application. These factors include:
- Lower IT costs - you avoid the capital expenditure on new servers, server housing, software installation. In addition these tasks will deflect the efforts of stretched IT staff from their usual duties.
- Economies of scale - subscription costs reflect economies of scale through "multitenancy". Multi-tenancy is where many customers run their software on the same core software component. In the case of CullDocumentsLive and document management this refers primarily to the server component and any add on modules such as full text OCR.
- Pay as you go - a relatively small annual subscription fee is much easier to budget for than a large one-time outlay. It is also possible to cancel your subscription at any time without losing and capital investment.
- Flexibility - it is easy to add licenses as your organisational requirements change. With a purchased solution to roll out new licenses is often a protracted process but with a hosted electronic document management is quick and easy.
Save time
Because you eliminate many of the typical implementation tasks associated with licensed software and because the software is already up and running at our data center, deployment time tends to be much shorter with a SaaS application than a traditional one.
Focus technology budgets on competitive advantage rather than infrastructure
When you subscribe to a web-hosted application, you free your organisation from supporting high-cost, time-consuming IT functions, including:
- Purchasing and supporting the server infrastructure necessary to install and maintain the software in-house.
- Providing the equipment redundancy and housing necessary to ensure security, reliability, and scalability.
- Maintaining a labour-intensive patch and upgrade process.
Gain immediate access to the latest innovations
With traditional licensed software, you typically have to wait for the next release to benefit from the latest innovations. Given the cost and complexity of moving to a new version, it may not even be practical to upgrade each time a new release becomes available.
With a SaaS subscription you benefit from innovations on an on-going basis. As soon as a new or improved feature appears in the application, you can begin using it.
Quick support
When you contact technical support you will experience a faster and better service because we can look at your system immediately to see exactly what’s happening. In addition, there is a vested interest in our quick resolution of any issues as you would simply refuse to pay us.
Five Key Benefits of SaaS
- Save money
- Save time
- Focus technology budgets on competitive advantage rather than infrastructure
- Gain immediate access to the latest innovations
- Quick support