Manufacturing Industry
Cloud computing moves toward the factory.(Company overview)
Manufacturing Business Technology, September, 2009
By Roberto Michel, Senior Contributing Editor
New crop of SaaS vendors targets functions like shop-floor control, supply and demand planning
The software-as-a-service (SaaS) model is well established in some enterprise software markets. Need a SaaS-based customer-relationship management (CRM) solution? Salesforce.com --the vendor widely credited with popularizing SaaS--stands ready to serve you. In the enterprise resource planning (ERP) space, NetSuite is thriving under SaaS, while for human resources management, Workday has become a force.
Under the SaaS model, users pay a subscription, either monthly or yearly, to access applications hosted in the vendor's data center. Because users are accessing remote applications, this model is also...
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