A State-of-the-art Survey and the Development Strategy of Business Models in ASP/SaaS Industry
Kwang-Kyu Seo · Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society · 2008
This paper presents a state-of-the-art survey in ASP/SaaS Industry and the development strategy of ASP/SaaS business models which are issued as a new software distribution method recently. First of all, SaaS(Software as a Service) is defined as the evolutionary concept of ASP(Application Service Provider) and then the survey results of domestic ASP/SaaS providers and users are presented. In order to cope with recent and rapid If development environment, the development strategy of the ASP/SaaS business models is proposed. The development strategy suggested in the paper is used as a guideline for ASP/SaaS providers to enter into the new ASP/SaaS business and improve their competition.