{"id":432,"date":"2007-11-12T17:29:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T01:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2007-11-12T17:29:59","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T01:29:59","slug":"saas-the-rise-of-infrastructure-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/saas-the-rise-of-infrastructure-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS: The Rise of Infrastructure Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In many ways on-Demand hosted software\u00a0isn&#8217;t\u00a0that much different\u00a0from the previous generation of traditional on-site software.\u00a0 The main difference is in the delivery mechanism.\u00a0 No matter what the service, Software as a Service needs to be built on a framework that can provide the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Web Hosting<\/li>\n<li>Provisioning of users as required<\/li>\n<li>Method\u00a0for monitoring and billing system usage<\/li>\n<li>Method for analyzing and reporting performance<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure for providing technical support to end users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some SaaS companies &#8216;roll&#8217; their own solution that include all the above &#8216;infrastructure&#8217; capabilities plus the software with the logic for their specialized service.\u00a0 But setting up an environment for SaaS hosting involves a level of technology expertise that is quite different than the expertise needed for developing the actual content of the service.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, SaaS infrastructure providers are beginning to pop up.\u00a0 With SaaS software sales expected to grow by 21 percent to $5.1 billion this year, it&#8217;s an area that can be expected to have tremendous growth.<\/p>\n<p>OpSource is an example of a\u00a0SaaS enablement company.\u00a0 The target consumer of OpSource services is an ISV seeking to host services to a fairly large audience.\u00a0 Pricing starts at $20,000.<\/p>\n<p>For smaller companies with niche software and a smaller number 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