Benefits, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Risks of SaaS adoption from Iranian organizations perspective

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a new mode of software deployment whereby a provider licenses an application to customers for use as a service on demand. SaaS is regarded as a favorable solution to enhance a modern organization’s IT performance and competitiveness which helps organizations avoid capital expenditure and pay for the functionality as an operational expenditure. SaaS has received considerable attention in recent years, and an increasing number of countries have consequently promoted the SaaS market. However, many organizations may still be reluctant to introduce SaaS solutions mainly because of the trust concern they may perceive more risks than benefits. This paper focuses on the analysis of Iranian organizations understand from the benefits, weaknesses, opportunities and risks of SaaS adaption.

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