Turning Software into a Service

  • Authors:
  • Mark Turner;David Budgen;Pearl Brereton

  • Affiliations:
  • Keele University, Staffordshire;Keele University, Staffordshire;Keele University, Staffordshire

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The authors explore the concept of software as a service, which envisages a demand-led software market in which businesses assemble and provide services when needed to address a particular requirement. The SaaS vision focuses on separating the possession and ownership of software from its use. Delivering software's functionality as a set of distributed services that can be configured and bound at delivery time can overcome many current limitations constraining software use, deployment, and evolution.