View Poll Results: Do you use SaaS?
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Jul 22nd, 2009, 03:12 PM
#1
Software as a Service
How many of you are working in shops that employ software as a service model?
In what way, have you found it to be useful?
In our shop we are subscribed to Salesforce.com
a) Salesforce is implemented better than the earlier Siebel based solution we had.
b) Licensing costs have been cut.
Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to, you know, a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it has a computer in it. They should kill the people who made those things.- 'Woz'
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Jul 22nd, 2009, 03:14 PM
#2
Re: Software as a Service
Another service that we have been thinking of looking into is an online backup service. This idea might be rejected owing to bandwidth constraints.
Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to, you know, a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it has a computer in it. They should kill the people who made those things.- 'Woz'
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Jul 22nd, 2009, 03:16 PM
#3
Re: Software as a Service
We actually providing a Software as a Service model for two of our products.
Sometimes the Programmer 
Sometimes the DBA 
Mazz1
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Jul 22nd, 2009, 03:38 PM
#4
Re: Software as a Service
 Originally Posted by GaryMazzone
We actually providing a Software as a Service model for two of our products.
How is your software configured?
Where does the software run?
On the client's boxes or on your servers?
Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to, you know, a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it has a computer in it. They should kill the people who made those things.- 'Woz'
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Jul 22nd, 2009, 03:41 PM
#5
Re: Software as a Service
No.
Because most non-service solutions we investigate have very reasonable costs, where 5-year projections typically show SaaS solutions as the more expensive choice. Even if not, there's also the convenience factor of having your own systems in place that you can access and change at any time, online or offline.
Our backup solution for example is a large disaster-proof NAS backup drive by IOSafe and EMC's retrospect software. It's waterproof, fireproof, and explosion proof. The video I linked to is of their smaller units, the Solo which is marvelous itself. 
Last edited by Jenner; Jul 22nd, 2009 at 03:59 PM.
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Jul 22nd, 2009, 05:55 PM
#6
Re: Software as a Service
We host servers in a data center in Ma. We control all software and the hardware. We user MS SQL server, clustered and replication running. Clustered IIS Servers.
Sometimes the Programmer
Sometimes the DBA
Mazz1
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Jul 22nd, 2009, 09:27 PM
#7
Re: Software as a Service
Online backup is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
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Jul 23rd, 2009, 08:05 AM
#8
Re: Software as a Service
Originally Posted by dilettante
Online backup is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Point taken!
Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to, you know, a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it has a computer in it. They should kill the people who made those things.- 'Woz'
save a blobFileStreamDataTable To Text Filemy blog
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