Why demand is the future of Enterprise Software? 1. Value creation - without capital investment before and 30 days unlimited trial period, customers can instantly gain business value and enjoy the benefits of on-demand software. The implementation of a solution to the particular application is shorter than the implementation of a solution on site.
2. Financial Simplicity - most products are based on demand on a monthly subscription, in harmony with the type of solution given (per seat, per transaction, per usual, and some other experimental pricing models). The financial benefits of the delivery model for the application include:
# No need to invest more capital in advance for the purchase of software licenses
# No annual maintenance contracts more hopeless terms
# No need to buy and maintain expensive servers.
# No software to install, manage, patch or upgrade
# In most cases, no consultants or integrators to tie it all together and go through months of implementation.
# No electricity, cooling or modernization of networking equipment.
3. No servers or software to maintain
The maintenance of equipment and software is left with the demand model. Many organizations spend much time on the management of servers and expensive software, which deals with the staging environments and software updates, software and patch servers cease to apply security patches and patches, which are not directly contributing to extract more value from the IT organization.
4. responsibility of the seller
Traditional model of software distribution have benefited most software companies. Once the contract is signed and perpetual ISV been paid (at the front in many cases), it is stalled. In the era of the application vendors at the request must meet the needs of clients and earn their business every hour, day and month. This creates a huge challenge for suppliers, but is a great advantage for the customer. The application vendors are set to provide the best service to customer needs and continuous improvement of their services and offering products, otherwise they will not be in business for long.
5. High reliability and security
This is often considered the Achilles heel of the demand model and therefore wrong in my opinion. The provision of services, high availability, security and SLA are all rooted in the DNA of a supplier to the request. Most vendors use today SAS70 certified data centers, 24x7 monitoring solutions and the latest technologies and greater safety, and are always on the lookout for the best industry practices helps to ensure the safety and ALS.
6. New features - no update software more
One of the true beauties of the company to demand is that the seller can deploy new software functionality to its entire customer base very easily. As new versions of software are fully available upon request after the vendor releases a new version, customers can focus their resources on taking immediate commercial advantage of the functionality of new software, instead of dealing with cycles Release level or correction.
7. Still using the latest version of one of the greatest challenges of traditional software vendors support multiple versions of their products (and arm-wrestling for customers to upgrade to the latest version in order to file support for older versions - are you still using "NT4.0?), and testing of new releases on multiple scenarios of infrastructure that exist in the customer's premises (operating system, databases, servers, applications, programming languages, networking equipment and others). With the demand model, the vendor supports only one version of his product (the latest), and to test and certify its product on a single infrastructure configuration - its hosted in.
Posted on February 22, 2010.
