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Description. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) will affect the business of most IT and software companies, as well as the client organizations’ IT function. Yet, software buyers and even software vendors are still somehow unfamiliar with the exact definition of the Software as a Service. Is it a whole new business model, an adjustment to revenue and distribution model, or just a new deployment technology? It appears that SaaS is not just a technical issue, but affects profoundly the way businesses provide and use software.
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Järvi, A., Mäkilä, T., Nissilä, J., Karttunen, J. (2010). Tutorial: SaaS Business – Theory and Practice. In: Tyrväinen, P., Jansen, S., Cusumano, M.A. (eds) Software Business. ICSOB 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13633-7_26
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