{"id":6374,"date":"2013-03-08T00:31:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/mar\/08\/whos-top-dog-saas-space-infographic\/"},"modified":"2013-03-08T00:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T00:31:14","slug":"whos-the-top-dog-in-the-saas-space-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/whos-the-top-dog-in-the-saas-space-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s the top dog in the SaaS space? [infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software as a service (SaaS) has traditionally been the strongest and most valuable cloud computing market.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from Gartner in November show this: SaaS was valued at $14.4bn (&pound;9.57bn) by the end of 2012; infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was a $6.2bn (&pound;4.12bn) global market; whilst platform as a service (PaaS) was forecast to hit $1.2bn (&pound;754m).<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, Staff.com has published an infographic looking at the current SaaS ecosystem. The employment site has its own productivity tool, Time Doctor, which is built on SaaS.<\/p>\n<p>According to Staff Salesforce.com, the &ldquo;founder of the industry&rdquo;, is still ranked as the number one SaaS company, with almost double the numbers of SAP ($2.27 bn, $1.14bn) and Oracle ($1bn) in positions two and three.<\/p>\n<p>The graphic also looks at large acquisitions of SaaS companies, with billions of dollars at stake. Check it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software as a service (SaaS) has traditionally been the strongest and most valuable cloud computing market.<br \/>\nFigures from Gartner in November show this: SaaS was valued at $14.4bn (&pound;9.57bn) by the end of 2012; infrastructure as a service (IaaS) wa&#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-6374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374","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=6374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}