A recent IDC report on the growth of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications among the nation’s small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), contains a checklist of what’s appealing about the new software technology. Seriously, folks, it was as if IDC had lifted our checklist of EasyStreet benefits of infrastructure outsourcing.
Here’s why SaaS appeals to SMBs, according to IDC:
• No or low up-front capital costs. (Ditto for EasyStreet services.)
• Predictable monthly expenses. (Right out of our gamebook.)
• Elimination of expensive maintenance contracts. (Couldn’t have said it better.)
• Access to best-of-breed, enterprise-class services. (Do we hear an echo?)
• Extended customer-support services. (One of our strongest points.)
• Control mechanism similar to that of on-premise systems. (A customer favorite.)
“In addition to general business benefits, SMBs can easily add incremental services with hosted services,” IDC goes on. “In this way, SMBs can adopt a deliberate IT strategy to add capabilities – and just as important, pay for those capabilities – as they need to.”
Just replace the SaaS list with EasyStreet’s offerings and we couldn’t have said it better ourselves.