Adventures In Utility Computing

The business of utility computing.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Software as a Service (SaaS) conference

Software as a Service is one form of Utility computing. The delivery of software or more specifically a solution to a customer hosted off-site. IDC's broad image of this space looks like this:

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Souce: International Data Corporation

Examples of solutions in this space are salesforce.com, sugarCRM, Shutterfly and many others. This application space is moving quickly and trade shows dedicated to this space are starting to crop up. One such show is the Software Business Transformation Summit in Las Vegas, NV on June 13 and 14. It will be interesting to see how the definition of the applications evolve compared to the "public utility" used to deliver those applications.

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