As anyone involved in using or deploying application solutions for business can tell you, Software-as-a-service (SaaS) has always been the “up-and-coming” approach to delivering services, with widespread adoption “just around the corner”. But the journey from having a few early adopters until now, where SaaS is considered a mainstream approach, has not been steady, nor without troubles. If you have been following SaaS for the past several years, it may seem like a wave of adoption has carried SaaS forward into the mainstream. In fact, there is new research that seems to confirm this.
According to Saugatuck Technology’s report, An Endless Cycle of Innovation: Saugatuck SaaS Scenarios Through 2014, “as SaaS users, developers, and providers move and grow through these Waves, their nature changes. Most of the individual changes are small, but he gestalt effect is fundamental leaps in technology, capability, and utility.” The report also takes a look at what lies ahead with future “waves”, bringing Cloud Computing to the fore in the 2011-2016 timeframe.
One of the Strategic Planning Positions (SPPs) in the report predicts that by the end of 2012, almost 60 percent of large enterprises (and 70 percent of SMBs) globally will be using at least one SaaS application.
The complete report is available for purchase here.
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