Software as a Service : What is Expected From SaaS in Future ?

Software as a Service or SaaS is the commonest form of Cloud Computing. Looking at the landscape today we can find that most Software as a Service were developed 10 years ago. Think of the first generation of Software as a Service, the emphasis was on the adoption of the mainstream market, that story has ended, the mission has been reached and at the end of this we can say that there are few companies who actually designed and has designed Software as a Service really for Cloud Computing, not just as a Web Server Application.

Software as a Service : Guidance of SaaS

By the adoption of the mainstream market and the emergence of the social web, we are now at the dawn of a new generation of Software as a Service and they are different from their precursors. In fact, the existing Software as a Service providers need to reinvent themselves in this new form or find themselves extinct within the next decade. How will be the next generation of Software as a Service ? Previously we described Software as a Service in detail and now we are exposing some ideas.

Software as a Service : What is Expected From SaaS in Future ?

Certainly, the widespread use of AJAX, in the past 5-7 years from now has helped to change the way of web software usage, but there is no reason why cloud applications today still can not improve much from this point of view. In a sense, the Software as a Service today need to provide a richer experience, more similar to what desktop applications are able to do from the perspective of user interaction. Users require an class Rich Internet Application (RIA) applications, but delivered through a standard browser. This means that the use of HTML5 framework may achieve a rich and robust capabilities, interactive user experience, enhanced auto-save to local storage side, etc … Major competitors such as Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com have bet big on HTML5 for this reason.

We are observing the effect of Big Data in both B2B and in the vertical market segments such as healthcare, retail, finance and also in government. This phenomenon is also in not so small and in part is driven by research and social networking. Archiving, management and analysis of big data sets these sets is a great technical challenge that a huge opportunity for companies that are able to decipher the code. Software as a Service companies have the burden of collecting massive amounts of data across the entire customer base and the opportunity to take advantage of these data to perform benchmarking and trend analysis. The old models of relational data may give way to new ways to capture data storage mechanisms. New methods of analysis might emerge. The Big Data is quickly becoming a key skill for the next generation  for Software as a Service.