A.D.Douglas Associates Inc.

Cloud computing and specifically Software as a Service (SaaS) isn’t new. Most people know this, I think, but things have changed rapidly in this arena over the past 3-4 years, mostly due to the vast technological improvements made in broadband access. One of the ‘pioneers’ and most recognizable companies in this area is of course, Google. Today there are hundreds more. It is the future of software development and deployment for many companies and for others it is here now. Companies like Microsoft and Autodesk are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into infrastructure to support their plans to port their core applications to SaaS. Software piracy will be a thing of the past. You won’t need a terabyte hard drive to install your multitude of software programs on and this train is coming down the tracks faster and paradoxically, quieter than a lot of people realize.

In today’s economy companies from the largest, to the smallest, to the self-employed are looking for ways to save money to improve their bottom line. Those who depend on massive IT departments and have high costs in the area of storage and licencing for OS & DB applications should welcome this news because it can have a huge impact on reducing those costs. SaaS companies spread those costs over a wide customer base and provide that infrastructure in their licencing or subscription pricing structures. Another aspect of this type of service, in some cases, is the ability to grow into the application. Most SaaS models have levels of licencing available allowing companies to choose the functionality that each user in their organization will need.

Core SaaS business applications that are available include:
CRM - Customer Relationship Management
ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
ECM - Enterprise Content / Knowledge Management
PM - Project Management
EA - Enterprise Accounting
CMS - Configuration Management Systems
PDM - Product Development Management for manufacturing

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Cloud Hosting
My pre-amble brings us to the point of this post. More and more companies are feeling comfortable about moving to SaaS-based software services because the security levels achieved in the top-end hosting services have surpassed even their own IT infrastructures. I must qualify that statement by saying that this is only true when the hosting service is accredited and have obtained certificates from governing bodies. As an example, one company that has gone through these arduous processes to become accredited is OpSource. Visiting their site www.opsource.net makes it obvious that they are very serious about business security and are top in their class, with very few in that class. In doing your research into SaaS providers, this you MUST check out and make sure of because there are a good number of applications touting they are SaaS when really they are only ASP models.

True SaaS
Another company that has drawn my attention over the past several months and  is expanding globally at a very rapid rate is Asite PLC out of the UK <www.asite.com>. Asite is an OpSource partner and their core solution relates directly to the consulting services our company offers. Asite began it’s life in 2001 and in 2004 changed course to become a SaaS provider targeting the AEC community. They targeted this sector simply because that is where the company started. However, they didn’t build the services solely for that market. Their approach was to build a core engine, if you will, to provide data logistics involving procurement, project & content management and data exchange from/to other systems through their API. The platform has been developed in such a manner as to be incredibly open to customization by the users of the system with a module called AppBuilder. Admittedly, there are a great number of software applications that are customizable, but to offer it from the cloud is a whole different ball game. Asite allows users to independently create and publish custom interfaces with underlying work flow and processes directly to their “workspace” and also make them available on mobile devices. Having this kind of functionality built into a SaaS based system means that it can be ‘geared’ to economically bring company specific functionality to a great number of people in a global environment in a short period of time. Couple this with the OpSource partnership and you have a highly scalable, customizable platform that is proving itself with some of the most recognizable names in the AEC industry. Big business in other sectors will be quick to catch onto this because they will be able to do things that other boxed applications don’t allow, or at the very least, make very difficult to achieve.

But don’t take my word for it. Check out these web sites because they are chock full of information and freely given at at that! Just one more sign of their openness and willingness to give power to the user base, which in today’s environment is very refreshing.

Comments welcome…

Al

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