What Is The SaaS Ecosystem?

SaaS stands for software-as-a-service, it means instead of buying, installing, upgrading and otherwise managing your business system, it is delivered purely online via the internet.
The SaaS Ecosystem is a collection of SaaS systems - particularly business systems - that talk to each other.

Of course they don’t talk like humans but they do talk - using web based languages or protocols also referred to as web services.

What Is Saasu Doing In The SaaS Ecosystem ?

We aim to enable it even more. To be an anchor point in SaaS.

We are already an important part of the SaaS ecosystem because we hold key business and accounting information for thousands of businesses and have done for many years. Today this is even more important because the power of other complementary businesses can leverage our skills and we can leverage theirs by having our systems talk to each other.

This means our mutual clients get more features and more benefits today.

We have three types of work in this area -

1. Public - these are product features that have been finished and are released to clients, search our blog for ’salesforce.com’ or ‘88miles.net’ or ‘campaigmonitor.com’ and you will get a taste for how we can talk to those services today.
2. Semi-public - these area new product features in the saasu labs that we are developing or going into beta testing
3. Confidential - these are strategic developments that we are not prepared to discuss just yet but we are accepting new proposals from global 100% pure SaaS providers of horizontal services.

We will be launching a more cohesive service for helping you manage your SaaS relationships under the saasecosystem.com brand in the future too.

We will also be enabling more automated inter-company commerce with full accounting support. Pre-registrations for this are now open, please contact us if you are interested.

Ecosystem Principles and Code of Conduct

We are developing a set of industry principles to protect clients and vendors alike. If you would like to make submissions as a client or vendor please contact us.

Membership

We are currently accepting foundation membership pre-applications for the SaaS ecosystem, please contact us if you are interested or apply to join the linkedin.com group

Membership Benefits For Vendors

• Consistent branding
• Quality mark
• Improved client experience
• Principles and Code Of Conduct
• Client Confidence
• Lobbying
• Shared Marketing
• Market Education & Development
• Market Research
• Benchmarking
• Interoperability testing and cooperation

Membership Benefits For Clients & Other End Users

• Consistent information on vendors for initial comparison/short listing
• Consistent branding means vendors are effectively pre-selected on quality and interoperability
• Quality Mark means improved client experience
• Principles and Code Of Conduct means improved client experience
• Client Confidence that vendor is has met some minimum reputation tests
• Lobbying for vendor and client rights
• Shared Marketing means you are not inundated with inconsistently delivered messages
• Market Education & Development
• Market Research - one voice reaches multi vendors
• Benchmarking

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