{"id":134,"date":"2006-11-09T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T19:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2006-11-09T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T19:26:57","slug":"saas-jump-in-number-of-plans-for-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/saas-jump-in-number-of-plans-for-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS:  Jump in Number of Plans for Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>We&#8217;ve been hearing for some time that once companies feel comfortable\u00a0with SaaS\u00a0reliability, performance\u00a0and security issues that the SaaS market should be poised to take off.\u00a0 It looks like we&#8217;re reaching that level of comfort zone, so hold on.<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image133\" alt=\"SIIA On Demand\" src=\"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/SIIA.gif\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>ZDNet <a title=\"SaaS adoption plans\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/SAAS\/index.php?p=240\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> yesterday that at the <a title=\"SIAA OnDemand Summit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siia.net\/ondemand\/\" target=\"_blank\">SIIA OnDemand Summit<\/a> (Software &#038; Information Industry Association) held in San Jose this week that <a title=\"Abhijit Dubey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spa.org\/ondemand\/speakers.asp#Dubey\" target=\"_blank\">Abhijit Dubey<\/a> of McKinsey released results of their survey of CIOs and found that 61% of them now were considering adopting of some form of SaaS &#8212; compared to 38% from a survey taken last year.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a huge jump.<\/p>\n<p>The SIIA OnDemand conference was a two day meeting of about 300 ISVs, platform vendors and &#8220;SaaS Thought-Leaders&#8221;.\u00a0 Keynotes were presented by Salesforce.com, HP, IBM, and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>The conference also gave an opportunity to <a title=\"SaaS newcomers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siia.net\/ondemand\/previews.asp\" target=\"_blank\">SaaS startups<\/a> and new ventures to introduce themselves to a large audience.\u00a0 The types of software being delivered as SaaS cover a large range of areas, including mobile resource management, eLearning, billing and account management, email archiving, and mortgage servicing.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s SIIA OnDemand conference was a first of what may become an annual event.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fsaas-jump-in-number-of-plans-for-adoption%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" 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