Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) Benefit From SaaS Solutions Over On-Premise Applications SMBs and SaaS.com's SBE Expect A Fruitful Relationship

WebApps, Inc. a.k.a. SaaS.com, a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) with a major push in Workforce Management Solutions, proves that the Small Business Edition (SBE) has attracted elevated interest with approximately 50% of partners attending the SaaS.com SBE Webinar. A recent article written for ComputerWorld pinpoints exactly why a SaaS solution is quintessential for the small and medium business (SMB) market.

Bridgewater, NJ (PRWEB) December 28, 2007 -- WebApps, Inc. a.k.a. SaaS.com, a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) with a major push in Workforce Management Solutions, proves that the Small Business Edition (SBE) has attracted elevated interest with approximately 50% of partners attending the SaaS.com SBE Webinar. A recent article written for ComputerWorld pinpoints exactly why a SaaS solution is quintessential for the small and medium business (SMB) market.

The article in ComputerWorld, "Replacing In-House Apps With Applications in the Cloud", stated, "Many SMBs simply don't trust the Internet as a mission-critical delivery model." It went on to say, "But that's changing. The number of business-disrupting Internet outages reported in most U.S. metro areas has dropped precipitously over the past five years, and those stats are only going to get better. Additionally, Internet backup services are offering more options for SMBs at increasingly reasonable rates."

Some key reasons SMBs favor a SaaS solution over on-premise applications are because…
·   There is no need to install and maintain software on site
·    Software implementation is typically shortened
·   There is a lower total cost of ownership
·   Data can be accessed remotely from virtually anywhere

"We are continually expanding our SBE partner base because prospects are quickly realizing the immense benefits of a scaled down version of our solution," said Alexandra Quintero, Business Development Manager for SaaS.com. "Not only is the SBE more cost effective for small and medium businesses, it's flexible architecture also allows for easy movement between this version and the Enterprise Edition, without the need of a conversion."

The article concluded by stating, "For lean, mean SMBs looking for maximum features and flexibility with a minimum overall cost, SaaS and hosted software simply have nowhere to go but up," implying an optimistic outlook for the SaaS and SMB relationship.

Quintero went on to explain, "Our partners are not only able to address the needs of small and medium businesses, but enterprise clients as well who have thousands of employees with one single platform."

About SaaS.com

Formed in 2001, SaaS.com helps companies deliver both internal and consumer-facing applications as a service that are more intuitive, easier to deploy, and offer lower total cost of ownership. Two distinct business lines include a pre-existing set of Human Resource centric applications that are offered under a private-label model and a pure multi-application, multi-tenant delivery platform that can be coupled with industry-specific business logic and proprietary data to be delivered as a complete SaaS solution -- www.SaaS.com.

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