Improving the Business Value of SaaS Applications

More SaaS providers are using wholesale colocation facilities like Lifeline Data Centers to deliver their applications. Many of these SaaS providers are leaving cloud-based resources and infrastructure to regain control of i/o, network, bandwidth and cost. Others are using wholesale colocation to meet data center compliance requirements.

SaaS (Software as a Service) is the one that has the most appeal and potential to evoke interest from enterprise CIOs, due to the following reasons:
This is the most cost-effective way to deploy new business capability

• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Unmet performance expectations and not meeting the go-to-market pressures with data center-based solutions
• No maintenance, patching, licensing issues enable the business to concentrate on their core strengths
• Wide range of choice and healthy competition already in the market and growing
• Traditional ERP-packaged software is too costly yet not satisfying all the needs of the enterprise

With these in mind, the popularity of SaaS is expected to grow several times in the near future. However, if you are providing a SaaS-based application to your consumer, how best to adapt this is key to winning business. Because no SaaS consumer would like to see that their SaaS solution is not scaling up to changing business needs and they still need to invest in custom in-house solutions.

The following points will help the SaaS application providers make their SaaS application really extensible so that a larger group of consumers can use the same.

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Alex Carroll

Managing Member at Lifeline Data Centers

Alex, co-owner, is responsible for all real estate, construction and mission critical facilities: hardened buildings, power systems, cooling systems, fire suppression, and environmentals. Alex also manages relationships with the telecommunications providers and has an extensive background in IT infrastructure support, database administration and software design and development. Alex architected Lifeline’s proprietary GRCA system and is hands-on every day in the data center.