Jun 21, 2010
USA Today says: Software-as-a-service gives small business powerful tools
USA Today says that small business owners have access to “a mother lode of technology that can free precious cash and manpower is available to them as in no other time in history.” They’re right.
There’s the old way of running of a business and there’s the new way, fueled by Software-as-a-service (SaaS) programs like Virtual Time+Expense. The reporter highlights Glen Smith, CEO of Commercial Retrofitters and Recyclers, who had his work computers stolen. If he was running a traditional small business, he would have had to spend a fortune on new computers, programs and data recovery. Empowered by SaaS programs, he was able to resume his business in a day.
It’s not just SaaS programs, it’s cloud computing that drives them. According to research firm IDC, growth in spending on cloud services by U.S. companies with 100 or fewer employees is projected to grow from $2.4 billion this year to $4.1 billion in 2013. But what is cloud computing, anyway? Cloud computing is internet-based computing that allows you to access applications and services on-demand, anytime, anywhere. Virtual Software is cloud computing and SaaS, allowing you to do your work online, anytime on-demand, free of the worries of software installations, maintenance updates and big upfront costs.
Perhaps more than anything, this quote highlights the long-term advantages of Cloud-empowered SaaS programs: “This technology allows you to do more with less,” says Bruce Chatterley, CEO of Speakeasy, a Seattle-based supplier of Internet phone systems. “Small business can now go toe-to-toe with big business.”
So if anyone asks you if you are using cloud computing or SaaS, you already are – with Virtual Software.