SaaS no silver bullet for piracy
Summary: Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has been seen as a potential solution for piracy, but an expert says it is no sure thing.
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has been seen as a potential solution for piracy, but an expert says it is no silver bullet.
Victor DeMarines, product vice president at V.i. Labs which sells anti-piracy tools to software vendors, said SaaS' reach against piracy only goes as far as the delivery mechanism's ability to replace on-premise software.
SaaS may be suitable for some packaged applications, but more computing and graphics-intensive applications such as design software or product lifecycle management (PLM) applications still need to reside within office premises, said DeMarines via e-mail. Furthermore, SaaS is not immune from identity management and password-sharing occurrences, he added.
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RE: SaaS no silver bullet for piracy
you are talking more about the sutablitiy of SAAS applications more rather than speaking about the subject "SAAS no silver buller for piracy"
You dont even know what you are saying,
regarding password sharing, It doesnt matter if its a SAAS application for a business, even if the password is being shared, the application is still being used by the business who has the right to use it. let it be any user within the organization. ofcourse saas vendors has all the data with them, they can put some checks. but doesnt matter, at least SAAS applications wont allow piracy to that level as we see now with on premise apps.
and Dear ZDnet stop referring to anyone as Experts.