What does SaaS mean?

SaaS is software as a service. SaaS originated from mainframes in 1960s and C/S in 1980s, and evolved from ASP mode. Internationally, Salesforce, a SaaS provider, is a customer relationship management (CRM) software service provider established by/kloc-0 in March, 1999. CloudCC CRM and Salesforce are global leaders in CRM solutions on demand.

SaaS service mode is very different from traditional authorized mode software, which is the development trend of future management software. Compared with the traditional service mode, SaaS has many unique features: SaaS not only reduces or cancels the traditional software license fee, but also enables manufacturers to deploy application software on a unified server, thus eliminating the cost of upgrading and maintaining the server hardware, network security equipment and software of end users, and customers can obtain the required software and services through the Internet, without other IT investments except personal computers and Internet connections. In addition, a large number of new technologies such as Web Service provide simpler, more flexible and more practical SaaS.

In addition, SaaS providers usually charge according to the software modules rented by customers, so users can order software application services as needed, and SaaS providers will be responsible for the deployment, upgrade and maintenance of the system. Traditional management software usually requires the buyer to pay a considerable fee at one time before it can be officially launched.