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Case Study - Office Depot Gets SaaSy
Exercise: Imagine you are a manager of a company which is in need of IS solution to your company needs-similar to Office Depot, looking for ways that technology can assist with sales. By reading the above article, you are motivated to upgrade your system to software as a service (SaaS) for its integration needs. You are required to make a business proposal to convince your CEO about introducing software as a service (SaaS) for its integration needs. You must address the following in your proposal through considerable amount of literature review.
1. What is cloud based computing? What is software as a service (SaaS)?
2. Why do you believe your company should implement software as a service (SaaS) to solve company needs rather than developing your own software or purchasing off-the-shelf solutions?
3. What benefits do SaaS solutions provide to businesses like your company and Office Depot?
4. Provide four list of alternative cloud-based integration platform service providers which offer cloud-based solutions to small medium sized businesses.
5. Do a comparative analysis among them in terms of cost, features.
6. Which provider do you think is best suited to your business needs, and provide reasons why? Justify your arguments with a detailed cost benefit analysis.
7. In general, which types of problems are best suited for SaaS solutions?
8. What risk, if any, is your company similar to Office Depot taking by trusting its data and operations to your chosen SaaS provider?