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Are Hosted and SaaS Delivery Models the Answer to Doing More with Less? (Strategic Focus)
As the higher education market prepares for a period of unprecedented change, institutions will increasingly seek new ways to do more with less. Historically, institutions has been reluctant to adopt alternative delivery models for technology, but many will begin to view them as a valuable strategy for adding sophisticated technology solutions while holding IT budgets relatively constant.
Source: SaaS Market
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Scope
Identifies the key forces driving and impeding the adoption of SaaS and other alternative delivery models
Offers insight into how IT vendors can improve their service delivery models
Analyzes the crucial issues that will affect the decision to either adopt an on-premise model or outsource to a third party
Explores the competitive landscape for higher education vendors that offer alternative delivery models
Highlights
A growing number of institutions have come to realize that providing IT services is not their core competency. Using alternative delivery models or outsourcing specific IT functions to a third-party vendor will offer a slew of benefits to institutions and will be well-received in the higher education market.
The success of individual vendors with exploiting alternative delivery models will depend largely on their ability to offer the right IT solutions and services to alleviate the appropriate pain points. Therefore, vendors need to be aware of which functions are most likely to be outsourced and which are likely to be kept on-premise.
As more and more applications are made available through SaaS and institutions become accustomed with this technology, SaaS will become more mainstream in the higher education market. However, until institutions are ready to make that leap to use SaaS for mission-critical systems, SaaS will not be ubiquitous in this industry.
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Summary 1
Key Messages 2
It's time for institutions to get back to doing what they do best 2
A multitude of factors will increase the uptake of alternative delivery models 2
Vendors are in varying stages in providing alternative delivery models to higher education 3
Although SaaS is becoming mainstream, it will never be ubiquitous 3
Table of Contents 4
Table of figures 4
Market Opportunity 5
It's time for institutions to get back to doing what they do best education and research 5
Alternative delivery models what do they really mean? 6
On-premise versus outsourced and on-demand options 7
A multitude of factors cause institutions to revisit the alternative delivery model options 9
Technology is complex and institutions can no longer provide the human resources to manage it 10
Round-the-clock reliability and performance are an expectation rather than a luxury 10
Disaster recovery readiness has persuaded many institutions to switch to SaaS 11
Alternative delivery models provide a lower cost of ownership 11
SaaS-based applications offer up-to-date software and increased functionality 12
Alternative delivery models are not perfect for everyone 13
Institutions have concerns about security and the access to sensitive student data by third parties 14
Leave IT security to the technology experts; it's their job 14
Large investments have already been made towards on-premise delivery models 14
Institutions do not want to give up control over mission-critical solutions 15
Institutions link early cumbersome and costly ASP models to SaaS 15
