Like products, it seems concepts are getting version numbers. First there was Web 2.0. Now there is SaaS 2.0.High-tech officials floated the new term here at SaaScon, an event geared to foster discussion on the growing popularity of software-as-a-service (SaaS).
Whereas Web 2.0 is built around user-driven content and interactivity, SaaS 2.0 is an enhancement to the initial efforts of software services.
Bill McNee, CEO of research consulting firm Saugatuck Technology, introduced the SaaS 2.0 concept, noting that it is an expansion of the SaaS concept to further integrate software services into "premises-based" software, the term used at the show to describe installed, packaged software.
"SaaS 2.0 is about transforming business processes," McNee said. "It's closer to business service provisioning and a platform with programmable services on top of it."
SaaS 2.0 involves greater integration of these hosted apps into the enterprise, with extensive use of service-oriented architecture (SOA) (define)A for scaling, configuration and tighter synchronization with back-end applications.
A part of this emerging SaaS 2.0 will be SaaS Integration Platforms, or SIPs. These are solution hubs that share, deliver and manage applications, and serve as an integration layer between the application services and the hardware and software platform.
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