5 Reasons to Choose SaaS Solutions

A great alternative to the conventional client-based applications and turnkey software products are SaaS architecture solutions that host multiple system users and render services to multitenant community. SaaS is a current trend in web application development and many IT development companies have quickly adopted this paradigm to offer the entirely new business model to its clients.

SaaS Development Services as Part of Cloud Solutions

Basically, SaaS solutions are a part of the cloud computing model, when viewed from the end-users perspective. Since the users may stick to a SaaS-based solution instead of opting for the development of its own web application. In this case they place its software infrastructure in the cloud and utilize SaaS solutions, offered by one of the ASPs on the market. End users can choose from different providers, specializing either in business software development or social application development, VOD and IPTV solutions, to meet the needs for a particular solution best-suited for their business.

Competitive Edge of SaaS Development for ASPs

SaaS-architecture projects is another business solution for software companies. When an ISV reshapes its goals and switches from conventional ready-made product development to SaaS development, web developers are likely to face a challenging task to think out thoroughly the architecture of a software on-demand system in order to provide secure and at the same time efficient multitenant solution. Nevertheless, SaaS model, meticulously designed and implemented, will pay off soon, giving the following advantages:

• New revenue model

With SaaS solution as a key service, software providers yield its revenue from software subscriptions by hosting multitude of users and granting them user accounts in a SaaS system.

• Secure steady revenue

Subscription-based model offers an unprecedented profit advantage since SaaS-business income becomes more ruly and predictable as compared to the revenue from selling turnkey products, which depends on more factors and can change unexpectedly, in spite of all your forecasts and business plans.

• Simplified marketing and sales effort

ASPs don’t need to distribute their efforts to sell a new product again and again. Instead, they just need to monitor their SaaS system performance and users’ expectations to focus marketing and sales strategy on enhancing the existing SaaS solution and, thus, developing their clients base.

• Easier support and maintenance

Software companies won’t need a huge pool of IT specialist and help desk support employees to deal with customer problems, connected with maintenance of different products. The ASPs will be mainly tasked with CR issues and other ongoing support of one and the same SaaS solution, regardless of the number of SaaS system users.

• Loyal client base for further cooperation

Addressing the issues of any of the SaaS solution subscribers, software companies refine the whole system and evolve it steadily for all SaaS users. Therefore, an ASP makes its clients stay with the company by constantly improving its solution and rolling out new features for the same SaaS system.

According to the surveys of many leading IT consultancy agencies SaaS solutions will remain one of the top IT trends in the near future and web developers, regardless of the skeleton technology in the stack (Java, .Net or PHP), will be engaged in even more multitenant architecture development projects and continue to perfect their skills in SaaS development.