SaaS Business Models Analyzed

Computer software has traditionally been sold to customers as standalone software packages that installed from a physical drive using tapes and floppies then CD and DVD ROMS. These software packages or applications would run locally on a computer and the data would be stored on the hard drive of the machine accessing the content or an external drive.Over time, as the Internet grew and became faster to access for all users, cloud computing took off and other software models, such as Software as a Service (SaaS), became possible that are ubiquitous today. Cloud computing, servers being hosted in remote locations (datacenters) and both mobile and computer systems having robust browser to access data allowed for this model to take off.