SAAS

Question 1

What is SAAS?

What does it do?

Answer 1

Software as a Service.
Provides ready to use applications. Sometimes related to geographical location.
Consume applications and avoid installations.

Question 2

Name two examples of SAAS application types and what they do.

Answer 2

Customer relationship management (largest SAAS market):
- manages interactions with customers.
- analyzes data about customers.
Enterprise Resource Planning:
- Manage business processes of an organization online with colleagues.

Question 3

SAAS licencing is based on…?

Answer 3

…subscription fees.
… fees based on usage.
… enables “freemium”.

Question 4

What is SAAS multitenant?

Answer 4

The architecture of SAAS allowing multiple users to use the same version and configuration of the software in the cloud.

Question 5

What is SAAS horizontal scaling?

Answer 5

Where one version of the app is installed on multiple virtual machines in the cloud.

Question 6

What is Sagemaker?

Answer 6

is a SAAS service providing instances running Jupyther notebooks.

Question 7

What is Cross-Selling?

Answer 7

When a SAAS provider sells other SAAS services to existing customers who are subscribed to one/some already.

Question 8

SAAS disadvantages?

Answer 8

Needing internet connection.
Service as a Software Substitute.
Data lock-in: need to keep critical data also separately at a third party.