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Although, would the service that Amazon provides for companies like Toys 'R Us, Target, and Circuit City be considered SaaS? I've only recently begun to see some information on how that works. I'm reading "Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution" by Dr. Ravi Kalakota and Marcia Robinson, and Amazon comes up a few times.
-tb On Feb 23, 2006, at 7:14 AM, Anne Thomas Manes wrote: Not really. Amazon sells retail/e-tail services. Consider the pricing model -- you pay Amazon a fraction of proceeds from each sale, not for use of the software.
Likewise, Ebay sells auctioning services.
Anne
On 2/22/06, Eric Newcomer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Anne,
Wouldn't Amazon.com (or Ebay) be a case of a company
that is not a software vendor but that is still
selling software as a service? And using services as
the enabling technology to do so?
Eric
--- Anne Thomas Manes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's how I see it:
>
> SaaS is a business model that applies to
> organizations whose primary product
> is software (i.e., software vendor). These vendors
> can license the software
> to other organizations who will deploy it and run it
> as they deem fit, or
> the vendors can host the software (either themselves
> or through a service
> agency) and licenses user subscriptions to the
> software.
>
> The classic example of a SaaS vendor is
> Salesforce.com.
>
> A SaaS application does not need to be
> service-oriented, although
> service-orientation would be a valuable feature in
> that it will enable
> easier integration with other software.
>
> SOA is a software design discipline in which
> application functionality is
> implemented as reusable services that can be shared
> by many different
> applications.
>
> Organizations whose primary product is not software
> (i.e., not a software
> vendor) should not be thinking in terms of SaaS.
> Non-vendors should be
> focused on selling their business services
> (healthcare, financial,
> manfacturing, etc). Very often delivery of these
> business services involves
> the use of software -- but the software is simply
> the means to the services
> -- not the service itself. If you are a financial
> services company
> specializing in settlement services, then you are
> selling settlement
> services, not software services -- even if the
> settlement service is
> implemented using software.
>
> Anne
>
>
> On 2/22/06, Paul Denning < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to reconcile or form a mental model of
> Software As A
> > Service (SAAS) and SOA.
> >
> > How does an On-Demand Application (ODA) relate to
> a "service"?
> >
> > How are they (SAAS, SOA) similar and how are they
> different?
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Any good links?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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