Darren Wesemann Blog

As a follow up to my last blog, (Trend Virtual), I continue to see more evidence that the expectation is that the service delivery of software will overtake the traditional binary-installation delivery of software at some point. Perhaps not next year, or even five years from now, but the growth projected is intriguing. A Gartner report predicts that Software-as-a-Service (accounting for merely 5% of spending last year), will increase to 25% by 2011, a healthy increase in merely 5 years from now. I wonder if the real number will be a bit higher, because Gartner’s predictions are heavily weighted with CRM sales (although Salesforce.com is clearly leading the way in CRM SaaS delivery, there are many other industries that have been working diligently on decomposing apps into configurable services for delivery in an SaaS model… like, for example, SunGard, but more on that in a future blog soon).