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Gartner: No assumptions about SaaS!

Posted by Stuart Lauchlan in Management, Consulting on Wed, 25/02/2009 - 12:29

SaaS is cheaper than on premise, right? Well,  up to a point. Research firm Gartner Group has issued a warning to CIOs not to assume that SaaS will in fact turn out cheaper in the long term.

“In recent years there has been a great deal of hype around SaaS,” stated Robert DeSisto, VP and distinguished analyst at Gartner.  “As a result, a great number of assumptions have been made by users, some positive, some negative, and some more accurate than others. The concern is that some companies are actually deploying SaaS solutions, based on these false assumptions.”

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