Sunday, March 28, 2010
The two main culprits responsible for toxic garbage and e-waste are none other than Hardware and software. Thanks to the SaaS option that has brought some relief! SaaS has minimized the need for businesses to purchase and replace these items.
As a substitute of 10 separate businesses with 10 different web filtering boxes, SaaS is l run 1 dedicated web filtering box and remotely connects all the sites. By switching over to this option, business can now reap the benefits of affordable web filtering. To go by the reports, businesses deploying SaaS applications have shown a 20-to-1 savings in energy consumption. Besides, by streamlining management of every company computer through one centralized console SaaS conserves IT resources to a great extent.
SaaS is indeed the new age solution to toxic garbage and e-waste.
The two main culprits responsible for toxic garbage and e-waste are none other than Hardware and software. Thanks to the SaaS option that has brought some relief! SaaS has minimized the need for businesses to purchase and replace these items.
As a substitute of 10 separate businesses with 10 different web filtering boxes, SaaS is l run 1 dedicated web filtering box and remotely connects all the sites. By switching over to this option, business can now reap the benefits of affordable web filtering. To go by the reports, businesses deploying SaaS applications have shown a 20-to-1 savings in energy consumption. Besides, by streamlining management of every company computer through one centralized console SaaS conserves IT resources to a great extent.
SaaS is indeed the new age solution to toxic garbage and e-waste.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
SaaS Document Management Systems and the SMB marketplace
After doing our market research for the past few months, I am coming to the conclusion that it is tough to sell the value proposition for a horizontal Document Management System in the SMB market place. Even if the cost are very low as is the case with a hosted SaaS based offering, unless the business is just looking for standard DMS features, they are not willing to spend any money. There are a few reasons for this:
1. Small medium business require solutions that will relieve some pain or problem instantaneously for the owners or upper management who are the decision makers
2. If the sales pitch does not catch these pain points in the first few minutes of the sales process and the solution does not provide obvious answers to their problems, it’s an uphill battle to sell
3. The cost of sales has to be low which means no time for solution selling or lengthy needs analysis
4. End users who already know what they are looking in a DMS are a very small percent of the total SMB market and the only way to find them would be if they find you
5. Usually small business owners do not have trusted technical advisers to recommend solutions where the benefits are not obvious at first glance.