About On Demand
Software-as-a-Service
Affordable, simple and powerful
“SaaS is a software application delivery model where a software vendor develops a web-native software application and hosts and operates (either independently or through a third-party) the application for use by its customers over the Internet. Customers pay not for owning the software itself, but for using it”
- Wikipedia.com
SaaS is becoming increasingly popular business software because of its affordability and ease of use. It works just like any other licensed software except that you subscribe to an Internet service instead of making several software, infrastructure and IT resource investments. Key characteristics of SaaS include
- A wide base of users can access the service simultaneously through the Internet, making it a one- to-many, quickly scaled model
- It eliminates the need for expensive dedicated hardware buys, upgrades, or extensive IT management and training
- A customer is generally charged on the basis of his usage of the service
A SaaS provider administers the full application, database, networking and physical infrastructure and continuously tunes it for reliability and performance. And since SaaS is a multi-tenant platform, the economies of scale of using premium computing and network equipment are spread across multiple customers. This allows customers to leverage the best available technology advances at a price point that many would not be able to acquire quickly or cost-effectively on their own
Since SaaS data is accessible on the internet, questions have risen about the security of data in the past, but many instances—including the widespread use of Salesforce.com as a CRM tool for companies such as Cisco, Dell and Sprint—have shown that it is in many cases more secure than traditional in-house application hosting and management.
SeeControl On Demand is delivered as a SaaS product. Everything is housed in enterprise-class data centers and accessed through any web browser. There is nothing to install and SeeControl solutions are highly flexible to meet many unique inventory tracking and asset management needs. The service readily interfaces with existing systems to extend their reach and real-time capabilities.
On Demand Software provides rapid value for many inventory and asset situations in particular because:
- Inventory and asset needs change frequently due to accounting policy, compliance mandates, mergers, acquisitions and customer needs
- Most companies operate in more than one location and have increasingly mobile workforces; leveraging the Internet is an ideal way to connect multiple asset and inventory locations. Alternative approaches to data collection rely on installing software and networking equipment at each site, or developing expensive centralized infrastructures to manage remote users and locations.
- To the above point, companies such as Dell and Wal-Mart have proven that networked supply and inventory collaboration can bring tremendous competitive advantages
- A well established provider will be able to bring you new inventory and asset features from across the best practices of the customer base, or from your own requests---SeeControl releases new features at least twice per year
SeeControl has been providing On Demand solutions for several years, and was built from the ground up to provide software-as-service (SaaS). Large corporations, military organizations and public institutions have entrusted important operations and data to SeeControl.