Sapphire Cloud Solutions is a full service cloud hosting provider for resellers. To become a reseller click here. For information about finding a reseller or how your existing IT Service Provider can become one, click here.
For more than ten years now, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has cemented its place as the business service delivery model of choice – whether the call to action be collaboration or analytics. Historically, companies were required to buy, build, and maintain their IT infrastructures despite exponential costs. SaaS gives companies an alternative. Now, they can plug in and subscribe to services built on shared infrastructure via the Internet.
The SaaS model has flourished because of the many benefits it offers to businesses of all sizes and types. For small and medium size organizations in particular, web-based applications delivered via SaaS can provide a great cost effective alternative to delivering effective IT to your business.
Below is a list of 10 Software as a Service (SaaS) benefits to help organizations understand why they should choose SaaS solutions over traditional software:
- Affordable
Unlike traditional software, SaaS is usually sold on a subscription basis that includes upgrades, maintenance and a degree of customer support. SaaS subscription models usually operate on a monthly subscription basis, hence there are no large up-front costs.
- Quick to Deploy
With SaaS solutions, all you need is a web browser and internet access, and you’re ready to go. Whereas traditional software can take weeks or even months to deploy, SaaS solutions don’t require any software to be installed and so you are able to access your new software immediately.
- Zero Infrastructure
When delivering business applications via SaaS, the complexity of the underlying IT infrastructure is all handled by your SaaS vendor. Users do not need to worry about the maintenance of hardware, or which operating system version supports which database – SaaS vendor will take care of all of this for you, so you don’t have to.
- Seamless Upgrades
SaaS provider will manage software updates and upgrades for you, eliminating the need to install or download patches. At any one time, you can be assured that you will always have the most up to date software.
- Guaranteed Levels of Service
With most traditional software, you are not given a guarantee on how well it will perform, with SaaS you are. At Sapphire Cloud Solutions, we guarantee your applications will be available 99 % of the time.
- Backups and Data Recovery all done for you
If you are familiar with traditional software, you will know that unless a costly automated solution has been implemented, the process of backing up your data on a weekly basis can be laborious at the best of times. SaaS solutions eradicate this painstaking task, instigating automatic backups without user intervention and thus ensuring the integrity of your data.
- Work Anywhere
Providing there is an internet connection, SaaS solutions can be accessed from anywhere in the world. Users are able to access their data and work more efficiently from anywhere, making life easier for home-workers or for those people that work across multiple sites.
- Security
In many instances, an organizations’ business information is more secure in a SaaS solution, than in traditional software. At Sapphire Cloud Solutions, we run a much more secure, separate datacenter which contacts the IT infrastructure to deliver our applications.
- High Adoption Rates
As SaaS solutions are delivered over the internet, there is virtually no learning curve involved with adopting a new solution as employees tend to already be used to working on the internet.
- Long Term Customer Relationship
We believe this last point to be the most significant. At Sapphire Cloud Solutions we charge you an annual fee for the service, not monthly. So it’s important to us that you are happy with the service and stay with us for several years. We are very focused on ensuring you remain happy customers long term. You can contrast this with traditional software vendors who make the majority of their profit on the initial software license sales and have a relatively small ongoing support fee. Their focus is on getting you to buy the license and not necessarily the longer term view.
Sapphire is an established private cloud service provider with emphases on Business Continuity, Virtualization Services, and Regulatory Compliant Data Storage. To become a reseller click here. For information about finding a reseller or how your existing IT Service Provider can become one, click here.
