Software as a service is forecast to have a compound annual growth rate of 22.1% through 2011 for the enterprise application software markets, more than double the growth rate for total enterprise software."
Gartner
If you're like most companies, 40% of your IT budget is tied up maintaining your current hardware and software infrastructure. It's hard to find the resources-time and money-to deliver innovative applications to your users. SaaS is a way out of this dilemma, and it is a solution that is finding widespread adoption.
Do you use WebEx for presentations? WebEx is a SaaS solution (and Cisco spent over $3 billion to acquire them). Do you use Postini for email security? It's a SaaS application. SAP's latest offering, Business ByDesign is a SaaS offering. EMC, the storage provider, announced online backup and storage solutions. Salesforce.com, Workday, and NetSuite are all SaaS companies. Goldman Sachs reports that SaaS moved from 37th to 18th in its IT Spending Survey in just five short months. Gartner projects that the SaaS market will grow at a rate 2.5 times faster than overall IT spending. It is clear that Software as a Service has momentum. Here's why.
No Hardware: Not only do you avoid the investment, but you get a level of hardware sophistication and redundancy that you are unlikely to buy for yourself. If you bought your own airplane it wouldn't be a 787, but it sure is nice to fly on the best.
No Software: No complex license agreements. No investment. All upgrades are included in the price at no additional charge.
No Obligation: Nothing keeps a vendor on their toes like knowing that you are not locked-in. Our contracts are cancellable-no long-term commitments.
No Administration: No need for your internal staff to become experts on yet another application. Let us run the application, tune the database, manage the security, worry about performance, handle the upgrades, worry about load balancing, and deal with systems integration.
No Desktop Integration: Just a browser with the Flash player. No need to test for application conflicts. Just point to our url, and you're in business.
No Complex Implementation: Don't worry about another time-consuming, high-risk, over-budget implementation. SasS is all about simplicity; Chrome River embraces that philosophy and requires minimal training for users to immediately begin seeing benefits.
Leverage Our Secure Infrastructure: With state-of-the-art physical security and systems redundancy, the world-class hosting facilities used by Chrome River provide an exceptionally robust, reliable systems environment that we are confident will meet and even exceed your own requirements and capabilities. In addition, our data center is continuously monitored (24 x 7 x 365) by both automated tools and trained operations personnel.
Leverage Our Experience: Chrome River Expense is built by a team of people with many years of experience in your industry; we understand your environment and the systems you support. We integrate simply with your core applications: either through web services or FTP file transfers to our secure site. We manage the application; we host it; we support it. Images of receipts are sent to us by email. Credit card integration is done directly with the credit card provider. Chrome River is a core application that will touch almost every professional and many of your staff, but it will not consume significant IT resources during its implementation or once it is in full production.
