1.3 Technology enablers for SaaS
SaaS has established itself asa successful method to deliver
business services across the Web. [13] lists the market drivers for
SaaS which arise mainly due tothe economic benefits of SaaS .
The market drivers for SaaS have existed over 9 years. The cover
feature published by IEEE computer society in October 2003,
“Turning software into a service” by Mark Turner et al [15],
points that there were significant gaps in technical aspects of
delivering software as a service at that time.The market for SaaS
solutions has matured only after 2005-2006 due to the emergence
and availability of new technologies like web2.0, rich internet
application (RIA), SOA, cloud computing, virtualization, etc..
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