Indusa Technical Corp., a Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Level 4 – Managed certified software development company, reportedly announced that it concurs with Gartner’s March 2007 Software-as-a-Service, or “SaaS (News - Alert)” market research forecasts in its press release titled, “Gartner (News - Alert) Says Service Providers Must Prepare Now for the Software as a Service Wave”, and said that it is seriously optimistic about the SaaS’s future growth potential.

Gartner’s 2007 report claimed that the worldwide SaaS market reached $6.3 billion in 2006 and is forecast to grow to $19.3 billion by year end 2011. The 2011 prediction is more than three times the revenues accrued in 2006.

 “Companies are keener about opting for SaaS subscription model as they have to adjust to increasing IT budget constraints,” said Nandita Nityanandam, business development manager for Indusa, in a statement. “More and more enterprises are considering shifting the hardware and software maintenance expenses towards SaaS, as it appears to be a lucrative and cost efficient alternative with a single subscription fee.”
The beneficial route of SaaS gives customers the freedom to use and pay for only select components of their choice from software suites, and the flexibility to add other requisites as and when the need arises. It is a  Web-based application, which allows customers to use software via the Internet, freeing the customer from costs related to downloads, upgrades, software version control, and dependency on internal hardware.

Prior to this innovative customer driven request for ‘a use and pay when required only’ approach, entire solutions had to be bought and installed at a significantly higher one-time cost. Another up-front double whammy factor that earlier compounded financial woes was either the high price of a single license for an entire enterprise, or the available alternative which was cost per licence per device or user.

IT support resources such as staff, network equipment, installation fees and annual maintenance contracts are kept to a minimum, if not eliminated. With lesser pre-installed information to wade through, systems become more agile and corrective measures require lesser bandwidth, are more focussed and can be done remotely.

“The majority of SaaS deployments continued to be focused in individual departmental initiatives, such as sales force automation, except in small and medium size businesses (SMBs),” Nityanandam said. “In SMBs, we are beginning to see vendors provide capabilities to support more end to end processes, such as opportunity to order and in integration as a service where companies are already using SaaS for large projects. Indusa also provides Custom SaaS Application Development services with years of experience in the field.”

A high end SaaS model is generally an on demand, bi-directional, multiple user data integration platform for delivering ‘ready to use’ solutions, including SaaS to SaaS, on-premises to SaaS and on premises to on premises, as well as traditional B2B and large scale bulk data exchange. It delivers automated detailed activity recording, allows users to integrate to applications via a gateway and a structured, scalable fees-per-module model.

Indusa said that most emerging markets appear to be adopting SaaS solutions because of less prior IT investment and legacy issues, and noted that 11 percent - a figure from ScienceLogic LLC’s survey of 104 government employees - of US Government agencies have adopted various customized SaaS models. The figure is expected to double this year.

Company officials said that the company has provided Salesforce.com (News - Alert) Integration along with the extension and integration of a leading survey solution which was offered as SaaS, has the proven ability to remove all related show stoppers, guarantees enhanced customer experience by virtue of assisting in total cost of ownership, and also provides SaaS.

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