{"id":4432,"date":"2012-11-01T04:53:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T04:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/nov\/01\/saas-adoption-accelerates-goes-global-in-the-enterprise\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T04:53:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T04:53:43","slug":"saas-adoption-accelerates-and-goes-global-in-the-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/saas-adoption-accelerates-and-goes-global-in-the-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS adoption accelerates and goes global in the enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In working with manufacturers and financial services firms over the last year, one point is becoming very clear: SaaS is gaining trust as a solid alternative for global deployments across the enterprise.&nbsp; And this trend has been accelerating in the last six months.&nbsp; One case in point is a 4,000 seat SaaS CRM deployment going live in Australia, Europe, and the U.S. by December of this year.<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s noteworthy about this shift is that just eighteen months ago an Australian-based manufacturer was only considering SaaS for on-premises enhancement of their CRM system.&nbsp; What changed?&nbsp; The European and U.S. distribution and sales offices were on nearly 40 different CRM, quoting, proposal and pricing systems.&nbsp; It was nearly impossible to track global opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile business was booming in Australia and there were&nbsp;up-sell&nbsp;and cross-sell opportunities being missed in the U.S. and European-based headquarters of their prospects &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In working with manufacturers and financial services firms over the last year, one point is becoming very clear: SaaS is gaining trust as a solid alternative for global deployments across the enterprise.&nbsp; And this trend has been accelerating in th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}