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Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers

By : Leon Brown
Book Image

Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers

By: Leon Brown

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
Preface

Software as a Service (SaaS)


The emergence of mainstream access to the Internet, fast data transfer speeds, and advancements in the capabilities of web browsers, has opened opportunities for a new type of software business model in recent years; this being the output of the software that is sold as opposed to selling the software itself.

The SaaS model shares many similarities with selling SaaP—most notably the similarities in its focus on developing the software upfront and therefore the likely need to have funding for its development and any pre-requisite research to ensure that the product design matches market demand.

Advantages

SaaS provides the same types of advantages as the SaaP model, but with a twist:

  • Your own control: Like with developing SaaP, you are in control of the software you are developing. The difference with this model is that the focus is on the type of service you are creating the software to deliver

  • Flexibility: With software being provided as a service via the Internet...