No more SaaS

by admin on February 27, 2007

I’ve made a decision. The term SaaS is no longer relevant. Why? Because in the last year, I’ve seen very little by way of on-premise applications that delivered anything of serious innovative note. The things I see adding value are services. The software piece is assumed.

SaaS is dead – long live services.

PS – I’ve seen a lot of technical backfilling and feature tweaks. Not the same.

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  • http://www.zoliblog.com Zoli Erdos

    Long live SES = Software Enabled Service :-)

  • http://biztwozero.com David Terrar

    As you know, like Zoli, I'm not sure I agree with killing the term SaaS, but I do understand where you are coming from and agree with the sentiment. Zoli's SES term has a nice ring to it.

    I'm just concerned that the vast majority of business people out there, at least in the UK, are just coming to terms with the SaaS term, so I'm not sure this is the time to start changing the rules and confusing them again. I'll be interested to hear Phil Wainewright's take on this.

  • http://blogs/zdnet.com/SAAS/ Phil Wainewright

    My take? See my Jan 2nd post, SaaS in 2007: It’s about services, doh!:

    "SaaS is just part of a wider move towards Internet-based automated services."

    It's great to see Dennis dropping the SaaS term, which I've always disliked. However we'll still have to keep using it if we want to be understood while the rest of the world catches up with him. People in the UK have only just stopped talking about ASPs for goodness' sake.

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