As baseball season is just on the horizon, I thought it worthy to frame this post around it. Lots of interest, investment, chatter, and you could even say hype surrounding software as a service as a delivery model for enterprise consumption of IT.
So how much of this is actually being used in the enterprise?
A report out of Goldman Sachs (via Mitch Betts at Computerworld) lays out that we are just in the early days of SaaS adoption in the enterprise. The results of the survey of 100 CIOs states:
"…39% of companies still not deploying any SaaS solutions, while an additional 43% are deploying less than 5% of their software seats through SaaS."
Also interesting was what was being adopted in the next 12 months:
- Web conferencing
- Sales force automation
- Learning management systems
- Customer relationship management (CRM) outside of sales force automation
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