Sourcing Lifecycle for Software as a Service (SAAS)

Abstract

In recent years, Software as a Service (SaaS) has changed from curiosity caused concept to an accepted well known concept. A key advantage of this model is that, by cautious engineering, it is possible to influence economy of scale to decrease total cost of ownership compared to on-premises solutions. By using the guideline elaborated in this paper, companies which has interest in implementing SaaS will be led throughout the entire implementation cycle starting before the company decides to implement SaaS until the stage when the company decides to shift from SaaS model to another model or when they shift to another SaaS company