August 30, 2010
IWMS expert and Lucernex President, Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here), discusses the benefits of Cloud Computing to IWMS users.
In prior Blogs I discussed the differences between the different types of Web-based software delivery; namely ASP (application service provider), SaaS (software as a service) and cloud computing and I discussed the pros and cons of each. In this blog I will focus specifically on the primary benefits of cloud computing for IWMS users, performance, ease of implementation, price and payment flexibility.
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April 26, 2010
Real Estate Technology expert and Lucernex President, Joe Valeri (see Joe’s management summary here), discusses ASP, SaaS and Cloud Computing for real estate solutions.
When Lucernex started in 2000 we were the first store lifecycle management (SLM) solution to deliver our entire application as 100% Web-based, delivered as an Application Service Provider (ASP) solution. In reality we did not know it at the time but we were actually a Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor even then (according to Wikipedia it was coined in a February 2001 article written by the Software & Information Industry’s (SIIA) eBusiness Division). The difference to end users is largely invisible (except in the lower price) but to a software vendor the difference drives flexibility, costs (hence price to end-user) and focus. The next step is “Cloud Computing”, a buzz word for a service that provides equipment to host applications while doing all of the IT management on a secure environment optimized for performance and scalability.
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Tags: ASP vs SaaS vs Cloud, Cloud computing in real estate, IWMS, IWMS ASP, IWMS Cloud, IWMS Cloud Computing, IWMS SaaS, IWMS Software, SaaS for real estate, SaaS vs Cloud :: 7 Comments »