Salient features of Software as a Service - SaaS - offering are briefly discussed here. It involves a zero overhead deployment with respect to hardware, software and any administrative and capital spending. Organizations can start using the solutions in minutes, which is the biggest advantage of Software as a Service or SaaS, and can also avoid the complexities of going through the IT organizations which are stretched very thin in most enterprises. For small organizations, these resources may not even exist and for many large enterprises, many of these IT functions may have been outsourced.

So, this involves minimum risk and is a very low cost modeof getting the benefits of “deployment ready, configured solution” capable of meeting most of the user requirements day one! An organization can literally start adding users and use the application in a “pay as you go” mode without risks. If after a trial and test run of a few months, on-premise deployment is found desirable, Kovair can  facilitate an easy migration to it without any service disruption.

Importantly,, the benefits of industry-strength security are not lost in the SaaS delivery model. We still offer physically secured data center with redundancies through a very reputable SaaS infrastructure provider with global access. All aspects of secured socket encryption, multiple levels of application access control and global access 24x7 from anywhere are all part of the Software as a Service  offering.

Besides the standard pre-configured applications that are ready to use after a signup, Kovair has made provisions for user configurability wherever it is desired based on customer needs; the entire application can be configured by  customers as per their specific needs in every aspect. Most SaaS vendors do not offer such flexibility.

Kovair also has made provisions for incorporating its industry strength Omniprocess workflow engine for process automation of the Software as a Service applications as well as integrations with third party tools used on premise by the users such as test tools, SCM tools, Development platforms as well as Project Management tools.

Companies that do not want to compromise on the benefits of  Application Lifecycle Management  or ITSM solutions and yet are constrained by the realities of tight capital budgets for IT spending can make a leap to the SaaS or Oon-demand offering without any hesitation. In common parlance, “This is a no-brainer”. Those who want to try before “buying” can also launch into SaaS for some of their employees to start with as a pilot deployment and evaluate the pros and cons of SaaS vs on-premise deployments and then make a sound final decision for the long term. For companies with minimum or no IT resources or outsourced IT, the choice of SaaS is very obvious.