Recently the main trend in providing software services has been shifting from an ASP (application service provider)-oriented to a SaaS (software as a service). ASP is a software service model in which the service is provided on a one by one basis according its ownership, while SaaS is a software servicemodel inwhich the service is provided virtually on a one by one basis, but physically all at ...

This research study quantifies and describes suicide among South Asian Americans (SAAs), an emerging population that are underrepresented group in research. The purpose of this was to examine key characteristics deaths SAAs. Data were employed from DuPage County, IL, a county with large SAA population. Following federal recommendations for disaggregating American data at granular level, four re...

Software vendors are increasingly adopting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) pricing model, whereby software is offered as a web-based service in exchange for a subscription fee. In addition, software vendors become increasingly interested in using bundling of services to maximize their market penetration, revenue and, or profits. The objective of this paper is aimed at presenting and demonstrating ...

Cloud computing has emerged as more than just a piece of technology, it is rather a new IT paradigm. The philosophy behind cloud computing shares its view with green computing where computing environments and resources are not as subjects to own but as subjects of sustained use. However, converting currently used IT services to Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud computing environments introduce...

IT providers have heralded software-as-a-service (SaaS) as an excellent complement to on-premises software addressing the shortcomings of previous on-demand software solutions such as application service provision (ASP). However, although some practitioners and academics emphasize the opportunities that SaaS offers companies, others already predict its decline due to the considerable risk invol...

SaaS (Software as a Service) has been attracted significant attentions from both industry and academia. Owing to serving multiple clients in the Long Tail, many notable SaaS applications have accomplished big successes in many traditional domains, such as CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and HRM (Human Resource Management). To promote the effect and efficiency of the traditional publishin...

Technological advances such as the creation of bandwidth, modular applications and cloud computing have enabled the creation of a distributed collaborative sourcing model named Software as a Service (SaaS). SaaS presents the embodiment of a new service delivery model in which a service provider is delivering its electronic services over the web to many users on a pay per use or period basis. Sa...

The cloud architecture is usually composed of several XaaS layers—including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The previous work studies efficient resource allocation to optimize objectives of cloud users, IaaS provider and SaaS provider in cloud computing. This work proposes the composition of different layers in the cloud, such a...

In order to serve a lot of different customers in a SaaS environment, software vendors have to comply to a range of different varying requirements in their software product. Because of these varying requirements and the large number of customers, a variable multi-tenant solution is needed to achieve this goal. This paper gives a pragmatic approach to the concepts of multi-tenancy and variabilit...

Cloud Computing, SaaS and the use of SOA in the business world is a rapidly growing phenomenon. In contrast to traditional software where organizations maintain technical staff and enough computer hardware to run their business effectively, SaaS and Cloud Computing is the beginning to change this background work of managing IT. SaaS have an incentive to release new features as soon as they are ...