What Can Saas Do for Your Business?

How Saas Is Changing the Business Game

Saas works simply – a cloud provider hosts applications that become available to customers by request. Users access applications or products through the web and mobile browsers. The provider handles maintenance and updates.

Saas companies create, develop, host, and maintain products while having instant access to a global market. According to Statista, Saas is expected to be worth around 195 billion U.S. dollars by the end of 2023.

For businesses and end users, Saas applications have plenty of benefits. Here are a few of them:

• Accessibility: Software products are accessible to businesses of all sizes, regardless of their location. The costs are transparent, therefore, easy to manage. Businesses can use the tools within a few days, without the fuss that local applications involved before. Moreover, now small businesses have access to the same tools as big businesses.
• Cost-effectiveness: SaaS products are cost-effective since companies purchase one subscription instead of many software licenses that also need local installations, and resources for further maintenance.
• Scalability & flexibility: Businesses can scale operations easily and quickly. Moreover, subscriptions can upgrade or downgrade the subscription according to company needs.
• Care-free innovation: SaaS products adapt to industry needs. As tech evolves and innovates, so do software products. Updates are automatic, so in-house technical staff doesn’t have to go through all the burden of maintenance.
• Team collaboration: Teams from different departments can easily collaborate on common files. Users store data in the cloud and can access it from anywhere anytime.

The Most Impactful Examples of Saas

You may already use Saas for your business without even knowing it. Here are five examples that impacted many industries globally.

Salesforce

The cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software has changed business sales processes. Among the features of Salesforce are customer service, sales automation, and marketing automation.

With 150,000 global customers – among which are Spotify, Amazon Web Services, and Toyota, Salesforce is a top SaaS platform.

Microsoft Office 365

The productivity suite is the go-to choice for businesses that operate on the cloud with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Over a million companies worldwide rely on the Microsoft 365 Suite.

Dropbox

Dropbox is a top leading cloud-based file storage and sharing platform. Dropbox has changed how teams collaborate on documents and other types of files.

The platform offers features such as automatic syncing, version control, and many others that make it easy for users to work on the same documents, regardless of their location.

Zoom

Zoom has seen impressive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic when it became the first option for video conferencing worldwide.

The platform can provide options to have video meetings, webinars, and many other types of events.

HubSpot

HubSpot is a cloud-based marketing and sales platform that has transformed the way businesses manage their inbound marketing efforts.

The platform provides features for email marketing, social media management, and analytics insights, making it a popular choice for businesses looking to streamline their marketing and sales processes.