Welcome to the Software as a Service Resource Center. Software as a service (SaaS) is a rapidly growing model for software application delivery over the Internet. By providing software as a service versus as an application that is installed on a user's system, software providers can easily maintain and upgrade software, fix bugs, and greatly decrease the time it takes to get new products and functionality to market. This Resource Center explores some of the SaaS products currently available, the benefits and drawbacks of SaaS, how SaaS works and more. In the Software as a Service Resource Center you'll find links to:

• The white paper, "Software as a Service: The Next-Generation Software Application Delivery Model for ISVs," from NaviSite.
• Microsoft's Developers Network Software as a Service (SaaS) page.
• The white paper, "Why Software as a Service?" by Mitch Cipriano, VP, Marketing, OpSource.
• A video overview of Salesforce.com's on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) services.
• The Google Apps Premier hosted software service that includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk and more.
• Resources for Microsoft Windows Live and Office Live SaaS products.
• IBM's Software as a Service FAQs and Microsoft's SaaS On-Ramp Program FAQs.
• The article, "Software as a Service (SaaS): An Enterprise Perspective," by Gianpaolo Carraro and Fred Chong.
• The article, "On-Demand Business Intelligence and Software as a Service: Revolutionizing Small to Medium-Sized Businesses," by George O'Conor.
• The article, "The Benefits of the Software-as-a-Service Model," by Curt Finch.
• The article, "The Pros and Cons of Hosted Software," by Mini Peiris.
• A series of podcasts from leaders in SaaS technology presented at the SaaScon conference.
• SaaS conferences including SaaSCon and the DCE Hosted Software Summit Program.
• The white paper, "A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Up SaaS Operations," by John Rowell, Senior VP, OpSource.
• The video, "Software as a Service," with Stan Gibson of eWeek, that discusses what SaaS is and how it works, SaaS benefits and more.