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Saas-Software as a Service

Software-as-a-Service has many benefits for today's companies. Perhaps most importantly, since it is a service, not software, it hits the financials as an expense and requires no use of capital budget. The IT requirements are greatly simplified for companies with limited staffing or those who want to make platform a non-issue.

With Blue Ridge, you can rest assured that our SaaS solutions are as robust as any legacy licensed software, so you sacrifice nothing and gain the flexibility and ease of deployment you want.

 

Criteria	Saas	Software
Capital Expenditure	Non-capital expense	$250,000 to $5,000,000
Hardware Requirements	Included	$50k to $1 million per server
Annual Software Support & Maintenance	Included	20 to 24% of license
Return on Solution Investment	3 to 12 months	2 to 5+ years
Technical Integration Timeline	14 to 60 days*	6 to 12 months
Technology Deployment	None	30 to 60+ days
Software & Hardware Upgrades	Included	Additional software, hardware & services fees
Computer Operations, Database Management	Included	Internal personnel required
Help Desk and General Support	Included	Internal personnel required
Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery Cost	Included	Internal personnel required
Best-Practice Foundation	Yes	No
Configurable to Business Environment	Via system controls and settings	Substantial custom code, programming & services
Customization Available	Yes, but often not necessary	Usually required for even basic functions