SchoolDude Blog: SaaS — Not a Fad Anymore

SaaS — Not a Fad Anymore

Bob Evans at InformationWeek believes that thanks to CRM vendor Salesforce.com, SaaS is now mainstream and it's not going away.

"What Salesforce did was reassert convincingly and I think permanently that the SaaS model has hit the mainstream unconditionally and is being accepted as a truly legitimate enterprisewide platform.

I think Salesforce has lifted up the entire SaaS industry on its shoulders and carried it out up and away from the concerns about the weak economy, the doubts about the technology, the fears of security, the neuroses of not-invented-here, and the various strains of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt that have dogged the company and the SaaS business for the past decade.

SaaS is here and it's not leaving. It's as mainstream as blade servers and smartphones, as battle-tested as outsourcing, and as proven as open source. SaaS is not a fad anymore.

SaaS is not a fad anymore."

You can read Bob's entire article here:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219500237