SaaS popularly stands for Software as a Service. Though there are multiple terminologies in use (one of which is Microsoft's way of addressing the same as "Software + Service"), what is ultimately important is that the objective of such a model is met - which is to facilitate the use of the required software functionality as services from the vendor directly without being burdened with the responsibility of hosting the infrastructure and, maintaining the software on the consumer side. Indeed, the concept does look very interesting. Service consumers can now focus on their core business areas by consuming the required software services without having to pitch into their non-core areas like IT infrastructure maintenance, maintenance of an additional IT team etc.

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