They say that “You can’t find happiness along the instant gratification route. It takes patience”. But SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) is all about instant gratification and hell yes, I find happiness along THIS route . I’m sure you will too.

What is SaaS?

Plainly put,

SaaS is a delivery model for Software, that delivers a Software as a Service

Most commonly, SaaS has been associated with Web-based hosted applications that are delivered via the Internet. This model does away with perpetual licensing schemes and allows end consumers to consume the applications on a subscription model. Here the end customer pays only for using the software and not for owning it.

When you consume a SaaS-ified application, you do not have to worry about having the right kind of skills at your disposal to run/maintain the application. It all comes bundled with the Service. Now this application has become a Service which includes the application itself and all the other activities that go into running/hosting this application.

This article is first in the series of articles that I’m going to write on SaaS. In the articles which follow, we’ll see different aspects of SaaS, right from the SaaS-ification of an application to the various ways end users can consume these applications.