Stakeholders 'must be engaged' for SaaS success

Small business management software and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings must involve the consultation of the upper levels of a company if they are going to be a success, according to an expert in cloud computing.

R Wang of Enterprise Irregulars addressed the issue clearly, stating that the likes of project management software strategies must constantly evolve.

He said that, as a result, change is happening so quickly that business and IT leaders must continue to collaborate in real time, meaning there is an "ever-changing list of requirements".

Mr Wang continued: "While SaaS allows business leaders to make go-it-alone decisions, success will require close collaboration on short term and long term requirements, dependencies, and strategy."

Another way to reduce problems and expenditure is to archive data with an SaaS offering in order to avoid extra costs over the long-term.

The Indian market seems to be a major one for growth of SaaS, following a report from Symantec India's Anand Naik in CXOtoday, who said that data protection is forcing people to consider specialised hosting companies for software as they are a safe source of security.

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