Well, it's not exactly software as a service, nor is it maintaining the status quo, but Microsoft at its annual worldwide partner conference announced a hybrid software as a service (SaaS) business model called Software+Services.
Microsoft's channel chief Allison Watson also announced a channel partner program around Software+Services.
CDN has learned that the partner opportunity will be based on three main delivery models: on-premise, partner-hosted, and Microsoft-hosted.
In the hosted by a partner method, the software and the services infrastructure will be owned and licensed by the partner. The hosted by Microsoft model will see Microsoft owning everything and providing products such as Office Live, Windows Live, CRM Live and Virtual Earth, and it will be up to the channel partner to figure out how to monetize the opportunity in subscription fees and other partner developed and deployed solutions. 数据挖掘研究院
According to Microsoft COO, Kevin Turner, Software+Services is not SaaS, but rather a hybrid approach that he hopes will offer better flexibility and control of IT.
“This is a hard transition and one that has been hard to accept at Microsoft for a few years. It is a new business model, and it is change and change is tough. We have to change faster internally or we will become obsolete,” Turner said.
Software+Services
Company CEO Steve Ballmer said to the close to 10,000 people at the Colorado Convention Center that Software+Services is an ambitious project.
Kevin Restivo, an analyst from the Seaboard Group, said it was clear from Ballmer's comments that there is a demand for hosted services and that the company is moving with the times.
“Microsoft can help to shape the trend towards SaaS with its own unique take on SaaS, and it makes a lot of sense that not all customers want to be in the clouds or 100 per cent Web-based,” Restivo said. 数据挖掘研究院
Microsoft's hybrid SaaS
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