Four Factors Changing The SaaS LandscapeFour Factors Changing The SaaS Landscape

A "future of software" panel at our <i>information</i> 500 conference offered several fresh insights into why the software-as-a-service landscape is changing. Here are four.

Chris Murphy, Editor, information

September 20, 2009

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A "future of software" panel at our information 500 conference offered several fresh insights into why the software-as-a-service landscape is changing. Here are four.1. Board of Directors support: "Before the boards were asking 'What's this SaaS thing?'" said Ray Wang, consultant with Altimeter Group. "…Now, they're saying 'Why aren't you doing something in the cloud?'" Woe to any CIO who pitches a big IT investment without addressing the cloud option.

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Chris Murphy

Editor, information

Chris Murphy is editor of information and co-chair of the information Conference. He has been covering technology leadership and CIO strategy issues for information since 1999. Before that, he was editor of the Budapest Business Journal, a business newspaper in Hungary; and a daily newspaper reporter in Michigan, where he covered everything from crime to the car industry. Murphy studied economics and journalism at Michigan State University, has an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia, and has passed the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams.

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