This combination is forcing companies to seek more effective ways to leverage business applications to meet their corporate objectives and respond to their changing operational needs.

After struggling to deploy and maintain traditional, on-premise software applications for years, many companies are adopting or considering a new generation of "on-demand", Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alternatives to satisfy their rapidly changing business requirements.

These SaaS alternatives offer attractive benefits including,

• Accelerated deployment
• Lower support requirements
• "Pay-as-you-go" pricing
• Flexible utilization models