Podcast #1 - Why SaaS is disrupting enterprise applications

The benefits of software-as-a-service (SaaS) can go way beyond cost savings. Implemented as part of an application strategy, SaaS can improve communications with business partners, transform information flow within organizations and create unprecedented flexibility in application deployment and customization. In this first segment of the SaaS Revolution Podcast series, SaaS expert Jeff Kaplan discusses the phenomenal growth in contributions to his SaaS Showplace and Managed Service Showplace resource directories, new SaaS application areas and the promise of SaaS to remake corporate IT architectures. Kaplan argues persuasively that SaaS is no less than the beginning of a new era in enterprise applications and that the trend has already spread well beyond its small-business roots. Download the podcast.

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