Taking SaaS to the next level

Industry experts believe that India will play a big role in taking SaaS to the next level by going beyond the traditional applications and that a new breed of very niche and specialized services will emerge on SaaS. The SaaS market is primarily defined by applications. But, SaaS is evolving quickly into unchartered territories and this where India will play a big role.

With growth rates of 38 percent in the APAC region, and the Indian share pegged at 48 percent, Ramaswamy said that the future of SaaS will be defined by how successful service providers are in integrating SaaS with the other major forces of enterprise IT such as Managed Services, Web 2.0 and Service oriented Architecture (SoA).

Future of Managed Services
There is a huge opportunity for SaaS in remote infrastructure management. SaaS has a much larger role to play in Managed Services and that the role of security will evolve as business collaboration adds a new dimension with the federated identity management and that SaaS is the answer for federated identity management.

On the Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM, India holds 53 percent of the $7 billion market, a huge portion of which can be moved to SaaS using models like federated security.