SaaS aka Hosted : I think, thats where everyone's heading, how apprehensive do consultants feel?
....everyday, i get 4-5 articles, saying -("A" is looking at Hosted) ("B" is already performing on hosted) & for ("C" its hosted, all the way), i really wonder if thats the way ahead for product companies to have that "Non-Linear growth pattern", but if everyone goes the hosted way does this mean that, no more consulting, no more consultants
Is the future just going to work in a way "that customers give master and related data en routed through secure VPN's to get businesses running in future, will there still be Business Blueprinting" will there ever be a necessity for consultants to help customer's adapt to Products, still bringing in their domain expertise to mash the product to suit their requirements", will the services companies merge with the product companies, Will there ever be any work for consultants any more, read more.....
What if SAP & Oracle, the two biggies who already have the vision for Non-linearity and to some etent already are realising the latter in a smaller scale, go the hosted way completely, could you possible reason out atleast 5 things that could show immediate affect
Licence costs doubling !!!!, Support costs tripling, "Spend/Volume based transaction models at gun points", "Procurement/Commodity specialists all poached into Product majors" immediately taking effect
there are positives and negatives to it, for whom is it POSITIVE, & who's stung NEGATIVE, whose Non-linearity hits whose linearity, is still a story to tell, we have to wait and watch to see the future for SaaS aka Hosted when suddenly all Product majors realise, no more partners, there's only one way for us !!!!
Comments
Tridip,
Nice thoughts. But I have a feeling that all of them will coexist because of various reasons. The most obvious one coming to my mind would be economies of scale. On a volume of data to TCO scale, hosted applications might not be feasible beyond a certain volume level..
Posted by: venkataraghavan | October 13, 2008 03:15 PM
Hi venkat, apologise the delay on the reply to your comments, i think you really bulls eyed the obvious, it is indeed, the economies of scale that will decide a lot of things going forward. But I strongly feel that even if the latter is true, companies will be pushed to use hosted if there are lean IT budgets, and they are pushed to show non linear strategies, dont you think at least 40% of the customer base would be interested in reducing TCO in a non-maveric regime?
Posted by: tridip | November 4, 2008 09:48 PM