SaaS Integration: Enhancing Business Performance and Scalability

This report provides a detailed analysis of integrating Software as a Service (SaaS) into a business environment, focusing on the advantages, disadvantages, and strategic considerations of adopting a SaaS model. It begins by introducing SaaS as a highly scalable, internet-based application that offers cost benefits, time utility, improved accessibility, and compatibility. The report also addresses potential disadvantages such as security concerns, data loss risks, internet dependency, and cost predictability. It evaluates available SaaS services like NetSuite, RackSpace, SoftLayer, and GoGrid, recommending NetSuite as the preferred service provider due to its efficiency, multiple language availability, and access to real-time figures, which help save time and money. Despite its drawbacks, such as difficulty in use, high customer support costs, difficult customization, and poor reputation, the report concludes that implementing SaaS, particularly through NetSuite, offers various advantages for the company, ultimately enhancing business performance and scalability. Desklib offers a variety of solved assignments and past papers for students.

Integrating SaaS
Name of the Student:
Name of the University;

Introduction
 The company is considering to move
to SaaS model
 Word processing software
 Spreadsheets Software
 Presentation Software

Introduction to SaaS
 SaaS is Software as a Service
 This is highly scalable
 This provides the user with the
internet based application.

Advantages of SaaS
 Provides cost benefits
 Time Utility
 Helps in Scalability
 Improves Accessibility
 Improves Compatibility

Disadvantage of SaaS
 Security and Confidentiality
 Risk involving data loss
 Dependent on Internet
 Low Predictability of cost

Available SaaS Services
 NetSuite
 RackSpace
 SoftLayer
 GoGrid
 WebECS

Recommended SaaS
Service
 NetSuite is the recommended
Service provider.
 They are one of the top 10 service
providers
 Available in 12 languages]
 Very efficient

Advantages of the
Service
 Offers Access to real time figures
 Helps in saving time and money
 Provides multiple module

Market for the Service
 Netsuite one of the top 10 service
providers
 They are available in multiple
modules
 They are offered in various
languages

Disadvantages of the
Service
 Difficult to use
 High customer support cost
 Difficult customization
 Poor reputaion

Conclusion
 The company is to implement SaaS
in their system
 NetSuite is selected as the preferred
choice
 They provide various advantages for
the company.

Bibliography
 Gupta, N., & Varshapriya, J. N. (2014). Software as a Service.
International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced
Engineering (IJIRAE)-2014.
 Espadas, J., Molina, A., Jiménez, G., Molina, M., Ramírez, R., &
Concha, D. (2013). A tenant-based resource allocation model for
scaling Software-as-a-Service applications over cloud computing
infrastructures. Future Generation Computer Systems, 29(1), 273-
286.
 Seethamraju, R. (2015). Adoption of software as a service (SaaS)
enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in small and medium
sized enterprises (SMEs). Information systems frontiers, 17(3),
475-492.
 Blendin, J., Rückert, J., Leymann, N., Schyguda, G., & Hausheer, D.
(2014, September). Position paper: Software-defined network
service chaining. In Software Defined Networks (EWSDN), 2014
Third European Workshop on (pp. 109-114). IEEE.