May 17
2010
Evaluating Software as a Service (SaaS) on cloud computing platform for government – Intro
The web-based software / SaaS model is ideal for all sizes of government (state government and local government) as it allows agencies to leverage a sophisticated IT infrastructure, which would otherwise be out of reach for most.
Many questions about SaaS have centered on performance, availability, security, customization, and integration with existing or legacy applications inside an agencies’ firewall.
When evaluating SaaS for your government agency, whether large or small, or whether you are in IT, city planning or building departments, it helps to have answers to these 7 questions:
1. Is my web-based software / SaaS data secure?
2. Can I track my web-based software / SaaS performance?
3. Is the web-based software / SaaS truly multitenant?
5. Is this web-based software / SaaS application high performance?
6. Is there a disaster recovery plan for this web-based software / SaaS?
7. Is it easy to transfer data into other applications with web-based software / SaaS?
Over the next few weeks we will be answering these 7 questions here to help government agencies better evaluate web-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) options.
