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•Guest Column: To SaaS Or Not To SaaS?

The SaaS (software as a service) delivery model has become a mainstream phenomenon, with adoption by companies doubling between 2007 and 2008, because of some widely documented advantages. SaaS deployments tend to cost much less, deliver business benefits faster, and are easier to adapt to changing business needs than traditional on-premises software. In ECM, however, there is one more key advantage &mdash: the ability to preintegrate a broad set of ECM technologies spanning document management, imaging, workflow e-forms, full text search, records management, and so on — and deliver a SaaS platform that can address most of the needs of a typical company.

While no guide is absolute, we have provided some practical questions for you to consider as you evaluate your project. Each question addresses a different facet of the SaaS advantage. If you find that your project shares several of these characteristics, a SaaS solution can probably deliver great project success at a dramatically lower cost than deployed software, especially if you choose the benefits of a SaaS platform approach. If you find that few or none of the characteristics apply, then an on-premises solution may be best for you.

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•Guest Column: To SaaS Or Not To SaaS?