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9 unusual facts about Software as a Service


Aspect Enterprise Solutions

AspectCTRM is a multi-commodity trading and risk management Software as a service (Saas) application delivered in the Cloud and includes physical operations to give end-to-end processing for oil trading firms.

Brandlive

Brandlive is a SaaS company based in Portland, Oregon, that sells live video commerce software.

DNS.com

DNS.com serves direct customers including ecommerce websites, Software as a service applications, and advertising and marketing agencies.

Grammarly

Grammarly is a writing-enhancement platform developed by Grammarly, Inc., and launched in 2009.

I-sense

Users can run the software on their own server infrastructure or purchase it on-demand as an ASP solution.

Kerio Connect

Kerio Connect can also be purchased as a hosted service (Software as a service - SaaS) from a number of providers.

Nous Infosystems

In June 2010, Nous Infosystems signed a strategic partnership deal with Apprenda, the creator of SaaS Grid, a Cloud operating system to provide on-demand enablement services.

Spoonfed Media

The company is best known for producing the online guide to London Spoonfed.co.uk and the SaaS marketing platform Bullseyehub.

Ubidesk

Provided as Software as a service, Ubidesk is platform independent and accessible via a web-browser without installing any application on the client side.


BT Group

Ribbit provides Adobe Flash/Flex APIs, allowing web developers to incorporate telephony features into their software as a service (SaaS) applications.

Competency-based management

Many of these competitors have entered via the software as a service (SaaS) delivery model, affording small and medium business (SMB) new less-costly options.

Conversocial

Companies and organizations such as Barclaycard, GoDaddy, American Greetings, Groupon, Hertz, Ogilvy, Sephora, Tesco, University of Phoenix, Tupperware, Waitrose, and JackThreads use Conversocial's Software as a Service to manage the flow of customer service enquiries and discussions on Facebook and Twitter.

Distributed workforce

Using a shared software approach called SaaS, or software as a service, workers and teams can share files securely as well as access the company’s databases, file sharing, telecommunications/unified communications, Customer relationship management (CRM), video teleconferencing, human resources, IT service management, accounting, IT security, web analytics, web content management, e-mail, calendars and much more.

Imaginatik

Imaginatik plc is a full service innovation company, providing Consulting and a software as a service (SaaS) platform for managing large-scale innovations at enterprise organisations.

Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement

Several implementations of SpicyNodes have been developed by IDEA, including a web-based version built on Adobe Flash which is available as a Software as a service web site with both free and paid versions; and as multitouch version for the iPad released in Spring 2011 as part of the "WikiNodes" app.

Intuit Canada

Services are delivered on a variety of platforms including application software, software connected to services, software as a service, platform as a service and mobile applications.

SendGrid

In April 2010, the email software-as-a-service (SaaS) company received $5 million in Series A round funding from Foundry Group, SoftTech VC, and Highway 12 Ventures, as well as individual investors including David Cohen, Scott Petry, Dave McClure, and Matt Mullenweg.

System Center Advisor

Microsoft System Center Advisor (SCA; formerly Codename Atlanta), is a commercial software as a service offering from Microsoft Corporation that helps change or assess the configuration of Microsoft Servers software over the Internet.

Talent management system

Many of these competitors have entered via the software as a service (SaaS) delivery model, affording small and medium businesses (SMB) new less-costly options.


see also

Shoutlet

is a leading provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS), enterprise-level social media marketing platform that enables marketers to publish, engage, and measure social marketing campaigns and activities on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Vindicia

Vindicia was founded in late 2003 by eMusic cofounder Gene Hoffman, former eMusic VP of Technology Brett Thomas, and Mark Elrod as a company specializing in software as a service (SaaS) marketing, billing and CRM platform.