I worked as an agile coach for an engineering company. A spin - off from a big international company. Their IT department could barely manage email and windows. So the desided they wanted web based requirements engineering and project tracking/quality ensurande software as SaaS. Because: * the provider does the backups * they have different international teams in different projects * they want to create projects and add users without negotiations with their IT * they need gt. 99% uptime aka reachability, the VPN of their mother company does not deliever that * the costs for the SaaS are transparently billed to the customer There are plenty of other points...
There are good cases for SaaS (Score:2)
I worked as an agile coach for an engineering company. ...
A spin - off from a big international company. Their IT department could barely manage email and windows. So the desided they wanted web based requirements engineering and project tracking/quality ensurande software as SaaS.
Because:
* the provider does the backups
* they have different international teams in different projects
* they want to create projects and add users without negotiations with their IT
* they need gt. 99% uptime aka reachability, the VPN of their mother company does not deliever that
* the costs for the SaaS are transparently billed to the customer
There are plenty of other points