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Even if we disregard the recurring-monthly-fee part of SaaS, which is popular because it makes more money, I think the "cloud" part is a main reason there are s

Even if we disregard the recurring-monthly-fee part of SaaS, which is popular because it makes more money, I think the "cloud" part is a main reason there are so many. Nobody wants to deal with creating installable business software, and businesses mostly don't want to deal with installing software across their systems. It's much simpler for a small dev team to have the software live inside a website, and it's relatively simple to bolt on a monthly fee for access to a website.

jaywalk 4y ago
This is the big one. It's far easier for both sides to use the "cloud hosting" model. The seller only has to worry about deployments on their own systems, and the buyer doesn't have to worry about deployments at all. It really is a win-win.
dgudkov 4y ago
> businesses mostly don't want to deal with installing software across their systems And now they have to deal with cloud leaks of sensitive data that they no longer control and various SOC2/ISO "certifications" increasingly look like security theater and a "feel good" measure because they don't guarantee anything.
- lotsofpulp 4y ago
  What is there to deal with? No one cares about leaks, and at most you give out some cheap credit reporting nonsense. A data breach is hardly news anymore.
keymon-o 4y ago
Time for an anecdote. I have recently witnessed a medium large company with a paranoid CEO, obsessed with business security, owning physical servers only for internal needs, hosting every single needed service, hoarding all the data. And just overnight they started switching these services to SaaS based one by one. Why? Lack of on-premise and offline based software. Consequently, the innovation today is almost exclusive to SaaS based products. On-premise and offline client software is just becoming an optional expensive side-product of every SaaS product. But it's a pretty logical step forward. As for the value, SaaS eliminates administration, installation, hardware, technical support and security hastle and majorly cuts the costs for a client company. As for the price, we always praise the always blooming software industry, successful startups, awesome jobs with so many perks and benefits, but someone has to pay for it. I think people don't consider that software is just getting very valuable and too expensive to make and it just makes more sense for companies to rent it then to own it forever.

jaywalk 4y ago

This is the big one. It's far easier for both sides to use the "cloud hosting" model. The seller only has to worry about deployments on their own systems, and the buyer doesn't have to worry about deployments at all. It really is a win-win.

dgudkov 4y ago

> businesses mostly don't want to deal with installing software across their systems And now they have to deal with cloud leaks of sensitive data that they no longer control and various SOC2/ISO "certifications" increasingly look like security theater and a "feel good" measure because they don't guarantee anything.

lotsofpulp 4y ago
What is there to deal with? No one cares about leaks, and at most you give out some cheap credit reporting nonsense. A data breach is hardly news anymore.

keymon-o 4y ago

Time for an anecdote. I have recently witnessed a medium large company with a paranoid CEO, obsessed with business security, owning physical servers only for internal needs, hosting every single needed service, hoarding all the data. And just overnight they started switching these services to SaaS based one by one. Why? Lack of on-premise and offline based software. Consequently, the innovation today is almost exclusive to SaaS based products. On-premise and offline client software is just becoming an optional expensive side-product of every SaaS product. But it's a pretty logical step forward. As for the value, SaaS eliminates administration, installation, hardware, technical support and security hastle and majorly cuts the costs for a client company. As for the price, we always praise the always blooming software industry, successful startups, awesome jobs with so many perks and benefits, but someone has to pay for it. I think people don't consider that software is just getting very valuable and too expensive to make and it just makes more sense for companies to rent it then to own it forever.