How i did my microsoft project part 2
Software as a service (SaaS, typically pronounced 'Sass') is a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across the Internet. By eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer's own computer, SaaS alleviates the customer's burden of software maintenance, ongoing operation, and support. Using SaaS also can reduce the up-front expense of software purchases, through less costly, on-demand pricing. From the software vendor's standpoint, SaaS has the attraction of providing stronger protection of its intellectual property and establishing an ongoing revenue stream. The SaaS software vendor may host the application on its own web server, or this function may be handled by a third-party application service provider (ASP). This way, end users may reduce their investment on server hardware too.
There was a short of manpower so a content developer was helping me with the project. We decided to read and scan the information about SAAS from internet first and then switch over to the research reports from global consultancies like Mckinsey, Forester, Gartner, IFC etc. it took us a week to read and understand all these things from the resources. The major challenge we were facing that we had to find the data according to an Excel sheet which was made by a person named Mr. Zubair Murtaza from Microsoft Corporation US. So in the end we had to synchronize the data accordingly. After reading reports we found that the reports gave a blurred image of the data. No body was clear in respect to market share in the respective divided platforms. We got the data for a base year and decided to apply CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate).
We found the growth rates mostly from external sources. Next when we had to divide the market share into three platforms of SAAS, which were Delivery Platforms, Development Platforms and application Platforms, we found absolutely no data in the reports regarding it. It was only Mckinsey that were elaborated, elsewhere different classifications were given. We had no option but to send a query to Microsoft, so as to make things better. But before that we had to convince the management to process the query so we presented the scenario.
There was a short of manpower so a content developer was helping me with the project. We decided to read and scan the information about SAAS from internet first and then switch over to the research reports from global consultancies like Mckinsey, Forester, Gartner, IFC etc. it took us a week to read and understand all these things from the resources. The major challenge we were facing that we had to find the data according to an Excel sheet which was made by a person named Mr. Zubair Murtaza from Microsoft Corporation US. So in the end we had to synchronize the data accordingly. After reading reports we found that the reports gave a blurred image of the data. No body was clear in respect to market share in the respective divided platforms. We got the data for a base year and decided to apply CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate).
We found the growth rates mostly from external sources. Next when we had to divide the market share into three platforms of SAAS, which were Delivery Platforms, Development Platforms and application Platforms, we found absolutely no data in the reports regarding it. It was only Mckinsey that were elaborated, elsewhere different classifications were given. We had no option but to send a query to Microsoft, so as to make things better. But before that we had to convince the management to process the query so we presented the scenario.
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