Cloud - Technology
SaaS
(Software as a Service)
Software provided online as an ongoing service
What's it for?
Lets organisations use software online without installing and running the product themselves.
For example…
Instead of installing accounting software on office PCs, finance logs into a cloud bookkeeping product that the vendor updates every week
A company subscribes to Salesforce as SaaS: staff log in through a browser while Salesforce hosts, updates and operates the underlying product
Think of it like…
Streaming a film instead of owning a DVD player and disc — you pay for access, and the provider keeps the service running