Implementation of software as a service is ‘harder, more expensive and riskier’ than initially anticipated, says SAP boss
Some of the biggest accounting software suppliers have been drawn into an argument over the reliability of web-based software.
In an interview with Information Week magazine last week, Bill McDermott, president and chief executive officer of global field operations at enterprise software supplier SAP, was reported as saying that software as a service (SaaS), which has been widely tipped as the future of business software, was ‘harder, more expensive and riskier’ than initially anticipated.
Under SaaS, the software is hosted by the supplier on the internet rather than stored on a corporate server or end user’s computer.
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