SaaS: Software as a Service for Staffing and Recruiting Software
PART 3: The Benefits of SaaS Staffing and Recruiting Software
So we have defined SaaS, explained the different approaches, and shown that it is a deployment method predicted to gain wide spread usage in the future. But, how does all this affect your staffing and recruiting business? Maybe you are satisfied with your enterprise software and having the ability to manage it in-house. Before you make a potentially costly business decision, let's look at some of the benefits of SaaS versus enterprise deployment.
Lower Upfront Costs
One of the key benefits of SaaS deployment of your staffing and recruiting software is the low upfront cost. Smaller firms now have access to high-end solutions that they might not otherwise be able to afford. According to a recent Cutter Consortium survey that polled SaaS end users, 40 percent of respondents stated the greatest benefit of SaaS is higher ROI and cost-effectiveness.
Because it is based on a subscription model, the initial investment is much lower than traditional enterprise deployment. Further cost savings can be found in the elimination of capital expenditures. Additionally, with your software vendor hosting your staffing and recruiting solution, you do not incur any of the hardware expenses necessary in an enterprise software deployment.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership Costs and Easier Scalability
If you are a smaller organization and can't afford extra IT staff to manage your solution internally, SaaS eliminates the need for this staff, saving you substantial dollars in salary and benefit expenses. In fact, larger and smaller organizations are becoming more receptive to the SaaS deployment model as it enables you to focus on what you do best: staffing and recruiting – your revenue-generating activities.
SaaS also scales to support your business as it grows and diversifies. Back to our "pay-as-you-go" example, you add user licenses as you need them. Additionally, if your firm's working with a reputable staffing and recruiting software vendor, your SaaS deployment is managed in a powerful and secure IT infrastructure.
Customization Flexibility
Additionally, some SaaS vendors can also offer extensive customization of your staffing or recruiting software due to an open application programming interface (API) built into a service oriented architecture that is hosted in a smaller pod tenancy or an isolated tenant environment. This has far less impact on the cost and maintenance of the software, as the vendor maintains the primary code base. SaaS offerings of this type give business users perhaps the best of both worlds -- virtually unlimited customization and/or integration capability combined with a vendor controlled and maintained source code base.
With all of these benefits, SaaS delivery is looking pretty good. One important area left to delve into though, especially for your mission-critical application, is security and stability.
PART 4 : The Security and Stability of Your SaaS Staffing and Recruiting Software
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PART 1: Software as a Service for Staffing and Recruiting Software - What is SaaS?
PART 2: SaaS Staffing and Recruiting Software Deployment Approaches
PART 3: The Benefits of SaaS Staffing and Recruiting Software
PART 4: The Security and Stability of SaaS Staffing and Recruiting Software
PART 5: The Future of SaaS Staffing and Recruiting Software
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