How SaaS Able Are Content, Collaboration, And Data Software Categories?

Air Date: Thursday, August 06, 2009

Cost: $250

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Who should attend: Information & Knowledge Management professionals

Description:

Many enterprises are considering content, collaboration, and data software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions as alternatives to on-premise software installations and perpetual-license models. In response, vendors — old and new — have launched more than 100 SaaS offerings. But which software categories should Information & Knowledge Management (I&KM) professionals focus on? And which catergories are likely to be generally adopted? To find out, we developed a "SaaS-ability" model, which indicates how well SaaS delivery works for a category. The most SaaS-able I&KM apps are blogs, email, and Web conferencing, while the least SaaS able are business process management and master data management.

Attend this session to learn about the evaluation criteria and how to apply the framework to other categories or your own applications to determine if SaaS is a viable option for your organization.

Agenda:

• What makes a software categories "SaaS able"?
• Which content, collaboration, and data categories are and aren't SaaS able?
• Which vendors are the leaders in the key SaaS-able categories?
• How can you evaluate your own project or category?

Vendors mentioned: Adobe, Cisco, Google, IBM, Jive, Microsoft

Related Research:

How SaaS-Able Are Content, Collaboration, And Data Software Categories?

by Craig Le Clair, Ted Schadler, July 8, 2009

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