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February 17, 2006Finally, the last of the 7 Things for SaaS
Ability to Drive Real Time
You won’t realize the true value of the SaaS model unless you it bring real time visibility of both business information and processes under your direct control. This means information is up-to-second current, and thus you have the ability to make decisions based on the most current data about your business. Moreover, you’ll have the ability to establish automatic mechanisms to carry out predetermined actions, such as automatically pulling a D&B on a sale greater than a million dollars.
Ability to Define the Value within Current Business
Finally, when leveraging the SaaS model you should have the ability to define the value of SaaS in context of your current business, not long term. While this sounds tactical to many, it’s really creating a strategy that creates a way of doing business that is much more cost effective and responsive than more traditional non SaaS type strategies. When using SaaS you should have the ability to scale your business, change when needed, and have full value of your information in real time without having your IT infrastructure lag behind, nor create a cost problem.
SaaS is really a new way of thinking about IT, making IT adjust for you business and not the other way around. As companies become more nimble and competition becomes more aggressive those that leverage the SaaS model will find that they have a key advantage.
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