SaaS Takes Over the ASP Model
In the late 90’s application service providers started leveraging the availability of abundant bandwidth and the popularity of the web to deliver applications in an ASP model. Essentially the application would be hosted on a shared server and managed by the ASP. While this was a step in the right direction, there were still significant challenges with this approach. These models evolved into what is now knows as Software as a Service or SaaS. SaaS architectures introduced multi-tenancy which allowed pools of high powered resources to be shared in a different way. Rather than customers having their own web server and database, a shared infrastructure served dozens or sometimes thousands of customers. Read More
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Imagine that your organization has only a single person who knows how to send email. Every time anyone needs to send a message, a request is added to the company Email Request System, where it is prioritized and put into a queue consisting of many other emails waiting to be composed and sent. While the email guru knows a lot about sending an email, it is not known when the message might actually be sent, especially if higher priority message requests come alongand reduce the queue position of your message request. Because the organization accepts that this is the best possible way to handle this process,everyone accepts the inevitably long waits and uncertainties as the “cost of doing business.”