Tightened budgets making SaaS attractive

Today we honor the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and tomorrow we have President Obama moving from the on deck circle to the home plate. However; we couldn't stop more bad news from the banks. Royal Bank of Scotland bites the dust on a massive 28 billion pounds ($41.3 billion) loss, which would be the biggest loss ever reported by a British company, ouch!

So if banks don't and won't lend, business that used to depend on it will have to employ operation cash preservation - CapEx to OpEx mode. While enterprise software vendors are pushing for SaaS contracts, it can benefit the small-mid size VARs, MSPs, and solution providers.

By doing the math correctly on licensing, services and hosting; solution providers can market a value package that makes their customer feel like they're receiving huge discounts. And because of current economic conditions, more businesses are willing to give SaaS a try, employing pilot programs to seek proof of concepts. Pre-sale SaaS trials are good for traditional customers that had no experience with SaaS and if the user experience is great and the price is right why wouldn't they continue?

This is why we developed our partner program around SaaS enablement for partners, reducing hardware and software risks to the minimal while allowing the focus to shift towards business, marketing (brand) and sales. We can't control the shift in technology but we can implement control in our business and that's where the focus should be to deliver IT smarter.