Is cloud computing the same as Software-as-a-Service(SaaS)?
While SaaS vendors originally did not use the word “cloud” to describe their offerings, analysts now consider SaaS to be one of several subsets of the cloud computing market. With traditional SaaS offerings, a company is buying pre-packaged “canned” software applications (e.g.,ERP, SCM or CRM packages) that are hosted remotely, usually in a multitenancy environment, and accessed via the Internet. SaaS applications can become “participants” in unique end-to-end business processes (see BPMaaS).
