{"id":4543,"date":"2012-11-12T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/nov\/12\/saas-continues-be-entryway-cloud-platforms-says-symform\/"},"modified":"2012-11-12T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T11:03:25","slug":"saas-continues-to-be-entryway-for-cloud-platforms-says-symform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/saas-continues-to-be-entryway-for-cloud-platforms-says-symform\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS \u201ccontinues to be entryway\u201d for cloud platforms, says Symform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research from Symform has shown that software-as-a-service (SaaS) continues to be the most mature cloud market, but platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is lacking by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>The survey of over 500 respondents showed that nearly four in five (79%) companies surveyed in the cloud were using SaaS, yet nearly half (48%) of companies in the cloud were not planning on utilising PaaS at any time during the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>This correlates with recent Gartner market trends research, whereby SaaS continued to cannibalise on-premise CRM solutions. Half of the respondents in the Gartner survey cited lower total cost of ownership (TCO) as the primary driver for SaaS adoption.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Security in the cloud &ndash; updated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were various aspects of cloud security touched upon in the report. In terms of general cloud security policy, there was an interesting range of responses.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of respondents (35%) said that they allowed some cloud based applications &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research from Symform has shown that software-as-a-service (SaaS) continues to be the most mature cloud market, but platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is lacking by comparison.<br \/>\nThe survey of over 500 respondents showed that nearly four in five (79%) c&#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-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","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=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}