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How SaaS Enables Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation continues to grow unabated as disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and big data see widespread adoption

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How SaaS Enables Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation continues to grow unabated as disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and big data see widespread adoption

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How Software-as-a-

Service Enables Digital


Transformation
Digital Transformation continues to grow unabated as disruptive
technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT),
and big data see widespread adoption. On the other hand, SaaS or
Software-as-a-Service is touted as the digital transformation enabler,
promising lower operation costs and high productivity for
organizations. Gartner predicts revenues from SaaS to surpass 120 Bn
USD by 2021-end.

As CIOs and technology leaders continue to look for validating the


trending cloud shift, SaaS-driven applications that facilitate
automation and supply chain are seeing high demand. It is imperative
that organizations understand how they can better leverage SaaS for
improving their business alongside increasing availability of enterprise
SaaS solutions

Is Software-as-a-Service the Epicenter of Digital


Transformation?

Organizations looking for the right cloud partner must ensure that
services they are offered are aligned with mission-critical objectives
and support business goals. Such an alignment is critical for
organizations, especially when they look for dependency on SaaS
solutions to ramp up their digital initiatives. Also, among the cloud
models, SaaS supports important sentiments of organizations such as
ensuring a good relationship with cloud partners.

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While being a preferred solution for organizations looking to manifest
digital capabilities in their core strategies, SaaS is an effective business
model for technological advancements. Organizations that eye best-
in-class solutions from leading cloud service providers are highly likely
to witness an accelerated digital transformation journey.

How Does SaaS Speed Up the Process of Digital


Transformation?

SaaS has growth to be a boom for businesses split between the digital
divide. Businesses with extensive resources are building proprietary
platforms for running their operations. On the other hand, businesses
that lack relevant capabilities, resources, and necessary finance are
recognizing the essentiality of digitization. Possessing the digital
benefit implies sustainable and winning business models, wherein SaaS
is the most viable solution for organizations.

While Software-as-a-Service gains high traction among organizations,


the shift from on-premises to the cloud is on the upward surge. This
shift can be highly attributed to the need for specialists with
imperative expertise for managing high-end software, which resulted
in high costs. The digital divide was majorly caused due to these
reasons; however, SaaS has been increasingly bridging the gap in
recent years.

Eliminating Transformation Barriers

With enterprise SaaS solutions, organizations can transform their


business by replacing their legacy systems, ranging from customer

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engagements to enabling collaborative operations. Concerns around
software integration complexities and costs have been major barriers
to adoption of digital transformation. SaaS solutions are helping
organizations eliminate these barriers, making it easier for them to
build scalability, resilience, and agility in their models.

Benefits of SaaS

• Scalability: Scalability with SaaS solutions comes in a broad


spectrum, increasing the number of users able to access the
software. SaaS can grow on cloud infrastructures and scale
hardware requirements in real time.
• Innovation: Accelerated innovation is one of they key benefits of
SaaS, enabling organizations to offer their customers with
convenient and faster access to advanced technologies. It
removes the traditional way of weighing software updates
against their implementation costs.
• Mobility: With SaaS solution, organizations can enable their
employees to access software data and tools from remote
locations, without the need for installing the software. It also
removes the need for VPN access. This benefit of SaaS is essential
for organizations in maintaining operational efficiency and
enabling an effective, distributed workforce.
• Cost: SaaS solutions help organizations cut down their total cost
of ownership pertaining to upgrading and running traditional
software. They remove infrastructure costs needed for scaling or

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implementing software, IT resources required for upgrading the
software, and scheduled downtime.

Moving Forward
Enabling digital transformation for organizations, SaaS solutions are
making it easier for organizations to pivot or build their businesses
entirely. They are helping businesses in replacing existing applications
while developing new features falls on the shoulder of SaaS solution
providers

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