SaaS is turning computing into a utility like the electric grid did for industry.

SaaS is a significant growth driver but fuzzy informations spread over the web make it difficult to understand and differenciate from software hosting environments.

This blog focuses on key success factors driving the development of a successful Business-As-A-Service solution.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Business-As-A-Service did you say?

I dont want to introduce a new acronym. There are too many of them out there and it is confusing.
I aim to set a new space of thoughts so that we can ask ourselves questions like what is... how do we... why not... what to do what not to do... to melt business processes and IT solutions as a single Business-As-A-Service paradigm.

Here is what the IBM's Program Director of SOA Requirements in the IBM Software Strategy division said on his blog last summer:
  • AaaS - Architecture as a Service
  • BaaS - Business as a Service
  • CaaS – Computing as a Service
  • CRMaaS – CRM as a Service
  • DaaS - Data as a Service
  • DBaaS – Database as a Service
  • EaaS - Ethernet as a Service
  • FaaS - Frameworks as a Service
  • GaaS - Globalization or Governance as a Service
  • HaaS - Hardware as a Service
  • IMaaS- Information as a Service
  • IaaS – Infrastructure or Integration as a Service
  • IDaaS - Identity as a Service
  • LaaS - Lending as a Service
  • MaaS - Mashups as a Service
  • OaaS – Organization or Operations as a Service
  • SaaS – Software or Storage as a Service
  • PaaS - Platform as a Service
  • TaaS – Technology or Testing as a Service
  • VaaS - Voice as a Service
I'm going to add another one: BlaaS (Blog as a Service)!

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