Survey: More SaaS development in 2009
More than half of all developers around the globe will work on Software as a Service (SaaS) apps this year, with a surge expected in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a study released today by Evans Data Corp. North America tops the list now for regions where SaaS implementation is highest, with 30 percent working on it today.
As companies look for cost-savings during the economic storm, technologies such as SaaS become investments that not only reduce costs but also increase efficiency. John Andrews, President and CEO of Evans Data, said:
These SaaS results definitely reaffirm the success of this concept in replacing the traditional model of business applications being run in house with traditional software licenses. SaaS is delivering on the promise of rapid deployment, limited upfront investment in capital and staffing, plus a reduction in the software management responsibility all making SaaS a very desirable alternative to software on a user’s premise.
The push into SaaS and cloud computing was no more evident than salesforce.com's dreamforce event in San Francisco a few months ago. Salesforce announced the launch of Sites and partnerships with Facebook and Amazon, with big players from Google to Dell were on-site, as well. This morning, Adobe announced that it will make its LiveCycle ES Developer Express software available on Amazon Web Services.