Companies looking for ways to save on long-term costs often consider cloud services, specifically software as a service. SaaS offers creative ways to address how companies use technology, which lets them focus on what matters most:their core business objectives. For IT organizations that deal with complex, expensive maintenance chores, the SaaS model promises to ease the burden and reduce costs and complexity.

When the economy takes a downward turn, company IT budgets are usually one of the first casualties.  This is the case with the current recession, as evidenced by an October 2008 CIO Magazine survey in which 40 percent of 234 IT chiefs surveyed said they are cutting spending, essentially freezing new IT initiatives, if not scrapping them altogether.