The Software As A Service

Published Date: 02 Nov 2017

As SaaS (Software as a Service) continues to gain traction worldwide there are increasingly more types of services and products being offered that caters to an ever widening variety of organizations. Choose a public listed company from Bursa Malaysia. Propose a suitable SaaS service taking into account the nature of the company you have chosen and their area of business. Your proposal must include references for the background research of the company as well as the SaaS you have proposed. Identify potential benefits that your proposed SaaS will provide for the company.

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Introduction

SaaS

Conclusion

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1 day late – deduction of 20% of the total marks.

2 days late – deduction of 50% of the total marks.

3 days late – deduction of 100% of the total marks.

Content

Introduction 1-2

How company developed 2-3

Intruduce SaaS 3-4

Advantage 4-5

Examples 6-7

Introduce software into company 7-8

Efficiency of company 8-9

Conclution 10-11

Reference 12

Introduction.

China Stationery Limited ("CSL") was incorporated as an exempted company with limited liabilities in Bermuda on 14 August 2007 under the Bermuda Companies Act. The campany has the Operational track record of 20 years. The business operations can be traced back to almost twenty years ago. In July 1991, Chen Feng and Kwan Wing Yin, the founder and executive chairman though Kawan(HONG KONG) Co Ltd ("Kawan Kita"), together with Putian Jiangkou Hualian Commerce Company, established Sakura (Fujian) Packaging & Stationery Co Ltd ("Sakura Stationery") to primarily manufacture plastic files, plastic folders and plastic ornament boards. Sakura Stationery was first incorporated as a sino-foreign equity joint venture and its registered capital was contributed by Kawan Kita and Putian Jiangkou Hualian in the proportion of 95.0% and 5.0%, respectively. Between July 1991 and 1993, the operations of Sakura Stationery were housed in leased premises and all its products were sold to customers within China. Since 1992, our Group has been using our own brand "SAKURA". In March 1992 and October 1993, with the acquisitions of Putian Jiangkou Hualian Commerce Company's stake, Kawan Kita became the sole shareholder of Sakura Stationery. In September 1992, Sakura Stationery's products were conferred the "Outstanding Products Award" by the Organizing Committee for the National Foreign-invested Enterprises Daily Necessities Expo. In 1993, to accommodate our increased production, we moved from the leased premises to our First Plant at Zhenfu Road, Jiangkou Town, Hanjiang District, Putian, and China with a gross floor area of 4,034.8 sq m. In November 1993, Sakura (Fujian) Plastic Enterprise Co Ltd ("Sakura Plastic"), a wholly-owned foreign enterprise, was established by Kawan Kita to manufacture polypropylene ("PP") sheets. All the PP sheets manufactured by Sakura Plastic are used by Sakura Stationery in its production of plastic stationery products for the export market. With this upstream capability within our Group, we are able to ensure the delivery of and consistency in the quality of the PP sheets, and consequently, ensuring the quality of our plastic stationery

The origin of the software as a service

With the development of Internet technology and applications mature, the Software as a Service as a completely innovative software application mode rise in the 21st century. It has the same meaning with on-demand software, the application service provider, and hosted software. It is a mode throughout the Internet to provide software. The manufacturer will application software unified deployment on the server, the customers can according to their actual demand through the Internet to order application software services they need for the manufacture, and according to the number and duration of services ordered payments to manufacturer and manufacturer provided the services throughout the Internet. Users no longer need to buy the software any more, switch to Web-based software to manage business activities and do not need to maintenance the software, and the service provider will sole administration and maintenance the software. Some software company provided internet application to the customer and at the same time they also provide software offline operation and local data storage, allowing users can use its software and services in anytime at anywhere. For many small businesses, SaaS is the best way to adopt advanced techniques, it eliminated the enterprises to purchase, build and maintain the infrastructure and the application needs. In this mode, the client is no longer like the traditional model that spend a large amount of investment for hardware, software, personnel, and only need to incur certain costs of leasing services throughout the Internet will be able to enjoy the hardware, software and maintenance services to enjoy software licenses and escalating; company on the project is no longer the same like the traditional model requires a lot of time for the layout of the system, the majority can use a simple configuration. This is the most efficient mode of operation of the network applications. Soft camp SaaS mode are very different from traditional sales software permanent license, it is the future trend of development of management software. There are many unique features in SaaS compare with the traditional services mode. For example: SaaS not only reduce or cancel the traditional software license fees, and manufacturers will application software deployed in unified server, eliminating the end-user of the server hardware, network security devices and software upgrade and maintenance expenditures, customer do not need other IT investment in addition personal computers and Internet connection can be obtained through the Internet to get what they need software and services. In addition, a large number of new technologies, such as Web Service, provides a more simple, more agile and more practical SaaS. In addition, SaaS software operator are usually according to the software module leased by the customer to charge, so the users can order software application services as needed on demand, and SaaS supplier will be responsible for system deployment, upgrade and maintenance while the traditional management software buyers need to pay a considerable cost to the official start. There will be a lot of development in SaaS. Think strategic research firm's latest findings show that a third of people plan to use SaaS in 2006. Since to get so many people accept, SaaS has become an important force in the software industry. As long as the quality and credibility of SaaS and it will continue to be confirmed, its charm will not fade. SaaS is not only suitable for small and medium enterprises, all the size of the enterprise will benefit from SaaS. The new generation of SaaS enables the user to test the application reliability and applicability in the implementation of small-scale range. SaaS not only suitable for CRM, but is slowly used to handle almost every demand management software.

More and more companies have turned to Web-based IT management software, will re-turn to the manufacturers of the burden of maintenance tasks, and the cost structure of a simple shift from capital expenditures, per seat operating costs. China Stationery Limited is also looking for a solution of the internal the managed IT costs analysis application and SaaS model, China Stationery Limited finally chose SaaS in their own building and direct purchase. The company executives are strict with the review of technology spending in the current economic environment. IT executives need to set out clearly the value of each of these services, some IT departments are turning to IT cost analysis tools, the cost of the technology more intuitive.

According to the reasearch, we know that the China Stationery Limited still do not have SaaS, and they are considering that they are able to use SaaS or not. Here is a successful examples in SaaS in the past years. John Hogan is a office director of IT department business management in other public Stationary Limited company, now, he provide report for the financial department and CIO by using IT cost analysis tool. He says that there have two ways for a company to deal with the IT cost management: one is that the financial department uses the traditional methods to tracking IT cost, the overall budget and forecast and other one is that in the IT department, Hogan’s team use the IT cost analysis tool which supplied by Apptio, and Apptio is a start-up company located in Bellevue, Washington, provide a level of business department report, Hogan make sure how to provide application costs for each department, such as supply chain or market department. The company is running more than 1800 applications, when they make sure the relationship between hardware and software, they rely on self-developed configuration management database badly, the company will be change from BMC to CMDB in the future, CMDB help Hogan establishing the mapping between the service and the cost, but CMDB can not capture everything such as desktop support cost, so Hogan must provides some manually to entre the Apptio. With IT cost data, Hogan can provide services cost for internal customers who use services. He says that everyone can cut costs by reducing the number of applications and reduce the level of service and then can Consume 80% of the budget before the 10 applications. Lisa Erickson-Harris is an analyst for Enterprise Management Association, he saw more and more organizations began to pay attention to the management of IT costs, he says that IT cost analysis software has been growing in the past few years, especially when the economic downturn and it development more faster, another factor driving IT cost analysis software is that more and more IT organizations established internal financial management sector and the majority of people are still using spreadsheets and other primitive tools. Apptio and Service-now.com is a delivery tools by SaaS model. Someone says that SaaS is the future; more and more companies are into this kind of software consumption patterns, it is easier to deploy and maintain. More and more companies have turned to Web-based IT management software and the maintenance task burden back to the manufacture and the cost structure will from capital spending to a simple, every seat operating costs. China Stationery Limited company is looking for the solution of internally hosted IT cost analysis applications and SaaS model, between their construction and direct purchase, they chose SaaS.

China Stationery limited company is a well know Stationery Company in the world, accumulated the essence of the industry for many years, they produce some stationery by themselves which call "ChenGuang" with excellent quality assurance and competitive price system. Establish a strong competitive edge in the design, manufacture, marketing and service in one of the global network and marketing network cover 90% area in the world. Fengyun Network Services Limited as the task Invoicing System for China Stationery Limited, as SaaS Platform carriers, the Fengyun network relying on its professional SaaS platform - FY online to the enterprise, and the region as a whole provides online information service. To provide the inventory management system for China Stationery Limited Company is a flagship product of the Fengyun online platform which has characteristic of less investment, fast effective and easy operation. Invoicing management system covers the warehouse management, warehousing, procurement, sales, cash payment and a series of Invoicing management process, and improve the financial system, realize the integration of financial management of warehouse, also equipped with a customer management system and personnel salary management system, through the effective management of sales, inventory, accounts payable, make your job easier, more convenient management.

Specific functions related to: customer management system and invoicing perfect combination; can according to the customer to check each transaction records; powerful queries in perfect order automatic generation; cost; profit automatic accounting order and generates the corresponding statements; each transaction are automatically generated by the card.

This is a new delivery model for SaaS software. China Stationery Limited Company SaaS through the Internet operators in order invoicing management system, eliminating the cumbersome process of purchase, installation, the very next day in normal use. This new mode of delivery management software can not only help the machinery has realized the storage management, warehousing, procurement, sales, cash payment and a series of inventory management, also provides the perfect financial system, realize the integration of financial management of warehouse, also equipped with a customer management system and personnel management system of wages, almost everything. The China Stationery Limited Company is satisfied, information management system of the enterprise is very easy operation, web page operating system directly, according to the enterprise business process, the corresponding function module include the Standardize the management of the business model invoicing system is designed for Invoicing management problems and the development of management software, suitable for all kinds of size and type of business application. Invoicing management system can realize the accounting procurement, sales, inventory, commodity management for enterprises to conduct a comprehensive dynamic real-time landlord dynamic tracking management, and comprehensive management of goods import and sale, storage and other links, real-time grasp the inventory cost, statistical sales performance, control the source of the item, the formation of capital flow and processing scheme logistics data integration, makes the data of " transparent communication in the company, Department, real-time delivery ", ensure the account match case, avoid the bad debt loss, improve their ability to control, to provide correct and forward-looking decision support for enterprise. Invoicing management system procurement management system to help the procurement personnel control and complete the procurement of materials from the purchase plan, purchase orders, delivery, and the whole process of receiving inspection. Changes and suppliers can effectively monitor the procurement plan, procurement cost and delivery performance, so as to help buyers to choose the best supplier and purchasing strategy, to ensure that the procurement of high quality, high efficiency and low cost implementation. At the same time, Invoicing management system and business, inventory, accounts payable and cost subsystem interface has a good. Purchasing information can be directly issued by the production and other departments, without manual input purchase orders, as long as the purchase program can be generated automatically merge issued purchase orders, very convenient, according to the allocated inventory automatic storage, and update inventory, the procurement of goods receiving inspection. At the same time by the cost and cope with the subsystem completion carry-over costs of purchase and payment work, without financial personnel manual fill in vouchers. The network provides Invoicing management system, is a combination of customer management system and invoicing perfect. Can according to the customer to check each transaction records. Order automatic generation, and according to the cost and profit of automatic accounting order and generates the corresponding statements, each transaction are automatically generated documents, help enterprises in the implementation of the implementation of informatization standard management processes. Mechanical enterprise management because of its characteristics of the industry has been showing characteristics of extensive management, along with the development of the industry, productivity levels tend to be consistent, at this time, the scientific management of enterprise materials, assets, has become a key node enterprises can ahead of competitors, at this point China Stationery Limited Company using the SaaS software management enterprise low cost, fast implementation, has been walking in the front of the competitors.

Conclusion

Today, the software as services (SaaS) is the most the most the prospects of development in marketing and the business community. Although there are more and more SaaS appears, it is still popularity and market share, the traditional internal software vendors still seem to resist this concept. However, with the time goes on and it is better for personal mastery to understand the number of enterprise cloud services. Almost all types of business applications such as customer relationship management (CRM), the inventor, accounting, marketing and project management, to name a few, now based SaaS. The reasons for the success of SaaS is the responsibility of supplier, SaaS vendor is responsible for the management and maintenance of software and hardware components of the application. Network problems, such as data redundancy, data backup and recovery plan and manage suppliers. They regularly upgrade the software. China Stationery Limited Company is becoming better than before because they are changing with the new technology and software which is good for company, they continue to improve their company with the development of the society and technology. If there comes new technology or software or something else, they will make an assessment to decided that it ois suitable for the company or not and it can bring how many profit for the company every year. Every coin has two sides, the company will also compare with the advantage and disadvantage that is the advantage more than disadvantage or the disadvantage is more than advantage. In my opinion, a company wants to make large profit must do a lot of decisions to make sure it is good for company or not, a decision maker must have various ability to lead the company forward.