Software as a Service (SaaS) has become one of the fastest growing segments within the IT sector.
UK, July 14, 2008 (PRESSbooth.ORG) -- According to IDC, by 2009, worldwide SaaS spending will be just under $11 billion – effectively doubling from around $5.5 billion in 2005. This represents a 20% compound growth, which is expected to be experienced by the UK market as well. And Gartner estimates that 25 percent of all software delivered in the next few years is expected to be SaaS.
The issue at heart is that with the mechanism of software delivery changing to a web browser-based system, it has created another level of complexity as vendors devise more complex licensing agreements to ensure compliance in an IT environment where usage is harder to track.
Enterprise SAM solutions must be able to manage SaaS applications as well as traditional installed applications. These SAM and license compliance systems must be able to track usage of applications in a web-based business environment on an ongoing basis – to ensure that enterprises can check on the usage of SaaS applications, and enable the optimisation of licenses.
Graeme Port, CTO at ManageSoft is available to discuss this topic in detail as well as comment on recent trends in the market such as the emergence of hosted services for software license compliance. If you would like a comment or opinion piece around this topic, please get in touch.
By
Graeme Port, CTO, ManageSoft
About ManageSoft:
ManageSoft is the leading supplier of Enterprise Software Management solutions for asset recognition, license entitlement, purchase optimisation, and software/OS deployment. Its solutions enable a quick asset, contract, and entitlement baseline to be established, immediate notification of compliance drift from policies and terms, and recommendations for resolution. All its products are based on open industry SAM, ISO and ITIL standards and ManageSoft contributes to defining future standards with membership in FAST, itSMF, BSA, and Microsoft SAM, IBSMA, IAITAM. ManageSoft has developed key business partner relationships with Microsoft (Gold Certified), VMWare and Siemens. The European headquarters is based in Maidenhead, UK.
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