Posted on Friday, October 31st, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Virtualization to Drive SaaS: Survey
WHIR News
A recent study showed that 72 percent of organizations believe that server virtualization will drive software-as-a-service adoption.
“A further 72 percent of companies are certain that SaaS will make their application usage more cost-effective because of the reduction in software management costs, and the ability to eliminate buying too many or too few software licenses,” says Neil Barton, director of Hostway. “Furthermore, around half of all organizations believe that it will enable smaller companies to use enterprise-level software without the need for large upfront investment, or having to train staff to manage and monitor these applications. Given these benefits, it is unsurprising that two thirds of organizations are planning to adopt SaaS within five years.”
Finally, many organizations believe that there is one last challenge involved in SaaS adoption, with 62 percent of organizations highlighting the lack of available SaaS-enabled applications as a key reason why many organizations have yet not adopted SaaS.
