SaaS business model for software enterprise

Author

Liao, Hancheng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Software, JiangXi Univ. of Finance & Econ., Nanchang, China

fYear

2010

fDate

16-18 April 2010

Firstpage

604

Lastpage

607

Abstract

Revenue of traditional software enterprises are from software copyright licensing and software upgrades, maintenance and other services fees. As a rapidly growing operation model of software contrast to traditional perpetual-use license, SaaS (Software as a Service) softwares are subscripted by users from vendors. From views of business and technique, software product/service selection, software service classification, service pattern and charges, advantages and disadvantages of SaaS business model were analyzed in the paper. A conclusion is that SaaS business model could not only provide vendors more development opportunities but also contribute to SME´s informationization.

Keywords

DP industry; corporate modelling; enterprise resource planning; software maintenance; SaaS business model; software as a service; software copyright licensing; software enterprise; software product selection; software service selection; software upgrades; Application software; Application specific processors; Computer industry; Hardware; Licenses; Marketing and sales; Software maintenance; Software quality; Software standards; Software systems; Business model; SaaS; software enterprise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Management and Engineering (ICIME), 2010 The 2nd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5263-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5265-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIME.2010.5477915

Filename

5477915