Get a Comprehensive Look at the State of the SaaS Industry and User Adoption

June 8, 2007; 04:09 AM
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c59239) has announced the addition of “Three Waves of Change: SaaS Beyond the Tipping-Point” to their offering.

In the span of less than a year, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has gone from point-solution curiosity to mission-critical applications for user enterprises. And according to research published this month, the next wave of SaaS is already being absorbed and adopted by user enterprises as platforms for multiple, critical business applications and processes.

This Research Report provides a comprehensive look at the state of the SaaS industry and user adoption. The report is based in part on a new worldwide web survey of 250 senior business and IT executives, 30+ briefings with leading SaaS providers and 15 deep dive interviews with early adopter SaaS users. Among other things, the report provides an update to our SaaS adoption scenario, and fine-tunes our SaaS 2.0 vision in areas such as pricing and licensing, ecosystems and verticalization.

“SaaS is beyond the tipping point and accelerating into mainstream adoption,” states Mark Koenig, head of the SaaS research program and co-lead author of the new report. “We’re seeing breakthrough levels of SaaS acceptance for mission-critical computing, from SMBs to the largest enterprises worldwide. SaaS is not a curiosity – it’s mission-critical.”

“The second wave of SaaS as a next-generation business platform is already here, and already delivering powerful business advantages for user enterprises,“ adds Mike West, co-lead author of the report. “Users are already utilizing SaaS for transaction and collaboration marketplaces, and we’re starting to see a proliferation of SaaS ecosystems that offer portfolios of synergistic and integrated SaaS applications with business services.”

For more information, visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c59239