{"id":13301,"date":"2017-04-07T07:36:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T07:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/?p=13301"},"modified":"2017-04-07T07:36:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T07:36:23","slug":"upgrading-or-migrating-to-saas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/?p=13301","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading or migrating to SaaS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, there is no \u201cright\u201d answer to this question. It all depends on conditions, financials as well as the features you want your solution to have. Of course, as a \u201c<strong>newer<\/strong>\u201d<strong> technology, SaaS<\/strong> may have <strong>more advantages<\/strong> and this is something that cannot be overlooked.<\/p>\n<h2>Financials<\/h2>\n<p>The first question you need to be asking yourselves, is if your budget can support such expenses, since SaaS and upgrading have different costs. Upgrading is a <strong>capital expenditure<\/strong>, paid only once (plus licensing and maintenance cost). On the other hand, SaaS is paid on a monthly subscription basis and is considered as an operational expenditure. So, SaaS is a fixed cost, while upgrading is not, since -apart from the initial cost of installation and software\u2013 there may be other relevant expenses that, in most cases, cannot be foreseen.<\/p>\n<p>What is best? The answer mostly relies on what you\u2019re looking for. <strong>SaaS requires no initial investment<\/strong>, which is a very <strong>important advantage<\/strong> -especially for <strong>small and medium businesses<\/strong>. So, you\u2019ll have to consider all aspects carefully before you decide which one solution is the best for your company.<\/p>\n<h2>Features<\/h2>\n<p>An equally important factor is the available features of each solution. Does SaaS or upgrading provide you with everything you need? What about<strong> ease of use<\/strong>? Most probably, in both cases, the integrated features will be more than the ones provided by your existing solution; but, they are not all equally important. SaaS is a <strong>cloud solution<\/strong> and therefore has certain specifications, one of them being that you <strong>no longer need to worry for server and hardware maintenance<\/strong>. This means less expenses for power and more available storage space. Furthermore, your vendor will be responsible for backups, so that you can really focus on your business goals.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, if your business strategy is <strong>mobile-oriented<\/strong>, you\u2019ll find out that SaaS greatly simplifies the complexity of safety protocols. <strong>SaaS systems<\/strong> are generally designed with <strong>mobility as a first priority<\/strong>, thus facilitating the addition or support of mobile operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, there is no \u201cright\u201d answer to this question. It all depends on conditions, financials as well as the features you want your solution to have. Of course, as a \u201cnewer\u201d technology, SaaS may have more advantages and this is something that cannot be overlooked. Financials The first question you need to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/?p=13301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upgrading or migrating to SaaS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":13321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[151,141],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13331,"href":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions\/13331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soft1.eu\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}