10 Most Important Questions you must be Aware of before Using a SaaS Application

Software as a Service aka SaaS – take my words, this term is going to be the next big thing in coming years for businesses across the globe. 

Just to give you a preview of what’s the future is going to be for SaaS Platform Businesses, take a look at the below statement by Scott McNealy former CEO of Sun Microsystems.  

“We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine.

You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack."

 – Scott McNealy, former CEO, Sun Microsystems

Very soon, there will be SaaS applications – that would adhere and help businesses in driving important work functions within minutes. 

  

SaaS is continuously offering features to increase the efficiency and free-hand accessibility of application for your business needs as compared to traditional web applications.

More than 86% IT product users or consumers are gathering information from social media and other sources to mark the final buying decision.

“SaaS Sales is all about Rapid Sales.”

When [SaaS customers] need a solution, they do some online research, maybe ask a colleague, try the solution or watch a demo, and then buy. The whole process might take a few days, maybe a few hours. There is no long, drawn out sales engagements, RFIs and RFPs, head-to-head “bake-offs,” contract negotiations, blah, blah, blah.

Customers find it, they see it, they like it, they buy it. Done.

Peter Cohen, managing partner of SaaS Marketing Strategy Advisors

(Source: kissmetrics Blog)

As a SaaS product and application Development Company, we have been continuously interacting with users who are interested to start with, SaaS application development or going to use a SaaS Based Application but they have some important questions (which some you might also have in mind!). 

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