What is Software as a Service?

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software licensing and a delivery model. In which the application delivers over the internet as a service. Its common examples are email, office tools, and calendaring. It is also known as on-demand, Web-based, and Web-hosted software. 

SaaS is also considered as part of cloud computing, along with infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), desktop as a service (DaaS), mobile backend as a service (MBaaS), integration platform as a service (iPaaS), and data center as a service (DCaaS). SaaS runs on a SaaS provider’s servers.

Characteristics of SaaS

A great example of SaaS is a bank, which protects the privacy of each customer and provides service to its users. So, let’s discuss the characteristics of SaaS.

Multitenant Architecture

Here all the users share a single, common infrastructure and code that is centrally sustaining. Because its vendor clients are all on the same infrastructure, vendors can save the valuable time previously spent on maintaining numerous versions of the outdated code. 

Easy Customisation

User can easily customize the application to fits their business profile without affecting the usual infrastructure. Because it is architected, and these customizations are unique to everyone.

Better Access

It is easy to access data from any networked device and privilege, monitor data, and ensure that everyone sees the same information.   

The benefits of SaaS

Many businesses give for turning to cloud-based SaaS because of its efficiency and cost-effectiveness. So, the advantages include:

• Low setup and infrastructure cost

You just pay for what you need with no extra expenditures.

• Accessible

You can access it anywhere by connecting to the internet and work via laptop, desktop, tablet, and mobile.

• Scalability

You can select your requirements by the number of peoples who needs to use the systems.

• Automatic, frequent updates

They make changes to their system when their user needs some more tasks.

• Security

Security is the basic need of any customer because every customer wants that their data should be secure from others.