SaaS - It's the big thing this year (so far)

6 February 2008 by Simon Mone

As predicted SaaS is making a big noise in 2008. Not only, as Doug blogged earlier, the fact that Mimtech will soon be launching a hosted CMS offering called PEPPER smoothie in partnership with SaaS providers Pepperio (Mediasurface) but now I have just been reading about some other offerings.

CMS Watch have been reporting on the VC money raised by Clickability, a SaaS CMS provider who have secured  over $15 million so far. Theere is obviously some confidence in the business model and with that kind of backing there should be confidence in the vendor's survival potential.

From CMS Watch (slightly edited)

'CrownPeak have announced a new product, ContentManagement.com, aimed at offering a SaaS option at a lower price. The company says the new product will be a scaled-down derivative of the current CrownPeak CMS product. The new product that starts at $1250/month seems like an attempt at trying to challenge Open Source alternatives and products that offer low entry costs like Ektron.'

Looks interesting but pricey when you consider that the PEPPER Smoothie offering from Mimtech will base price from as little as £299 per month in year one reducing to £199 thereafter with no upfront fees!!! 

Still got one right. I can sit back for the rest of the year. 

 

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