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Why are so many businesses
turning to SaaS? A New Day. A Better Way. B
usiness as we know it is undergoing a critical and fundamental transformation. Global markets, economic uncertainty, evolving technologies, competition for talent and the growing need for sustainable business
practices have all created new challenges for business leaders.
It has become clear that the old ways of doing business won’t work in the new modern global economy.
Fresh thinking is the new order of the day and new ideas and
technologies offer an opportunity to create new value for businesses, stakeholders and communities. Within this turbulent business landscape a key emerging trend is
the adoption of Cloud-based technologies such as Software-as-a- Service (SaaS) in order to drive business results, reduce costs and accelerate innovation. SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) is a software delivery model that
allows companies to share computing resources ‘in the cloud’ rather than building and maintaining their own. SaaS solutions have gained significant momentum over the last several years across regions, industries and lines of business.
n According to the Gartner report Amplifying the Enterprise: The 2012 CIO Agenda (January 1, 2012), 46% of CIOs expect to have more than 50% of their infrastructure & applications operating in the cloud by 2015.
n More than 50% of human resource managers polled in a Towers Watson 2011-2012 HR Service Delivery and Technology Research Report were found to be currently using or planning to implement SaaS solutions.
The widespread adoption of SaaS solutions by modern
enterprises has been accelerated by five trends that are shaping business today:
16 HR March 2012
1. Globalisation Global business is a fact of life as companies seek to remain competitive by expanding into new markets. Even companies that operate domestically are global to the extent that consumers around the world are able to find and purchase their products and services. And increasingly, work is performed by a global workforce. In this evolving global business climate, isolated HR systems have
created silos of workforce data captured in multiple systems with different data models and update schedules, making it difficult to inventory talent today or predict tomorrow’s talent needs. Lacking reliable, timely insight into the global workforce, global
businesses lack the agility to respond to changing business conditions. SaaS solutions offer a unified platform to manage a global workforce, enabling improved visibility into the business and responsiveness to change.
2. Economic Uncertainty In response to the economic uncertainty of the last several years in Europe, companies have been turning to contingent labor instead of full-time employees. The catch is that most HR systems do a poor job managing contingent workers, to say nothing of providing insight into contingent worker costs, work or work quality. At the same time,
because not all skills are equally critical – or readily available – to an organisation at any given
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