What is SaaS and what are the benefits of making the move?

**Moving your operations to the cloud comes with a host of benefits in working effectiveness, costs reduced, and value realized.**

What is SaaS?

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For modern organizations, value measurements have shifted from a focus on up-front cost and TCO to a more holistic lifecycle cost off-set by the capacity to enable strategic business objectives and user outcomes. This is especially true for SaaS, where continuous value is a key strategic advantage.

Four types of benefits are derived from Unit4 Cloud ERP:

Total cost of ownership

Streamline and simplfy IT landacape
Reduce/avoid costs
Build future-proof capabilities

Efficiency

Drive and unlock resource productivity gains
Do more with your people
Focus on value-added strategic activities

Effectiveness

Improved insights to People/Projects/
Capital
Higher agility & process flexibility
Integrated processes as key enab

Experience

Provide a system of engagement
Retain valuable talent (grow/
develop/support)
Consistent experience that cuts across the organisation

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The other benefits of migrating to a SaaS infrastructure

The emerging “everything as a service” (XaaS) economy allows almost every imaginable product to be offered as a service via the cloud. It’s influencing business models, client expectations, and industry regulation.

No sector has been left untouched. Migrating from on-premises software to SaaS is no longer a ‘nice to have’; it’s essential if businesses are to remain competitive in the marketplace.

_{And as if that wasn’t enough, the benefits of migration are growing:}

✓	Improved accessibility via the ability to run your system online 24/7 from any device. No installation, updates, or licensing costs.
✓	A more beneficial cost structure. No upfront hardware costs and flexible payment methods such as pay-as-you-go subscription billing.
✓	Less demand on people. SaaS improves efficiency and productivity, and allows people to spend more time on meaningful value-adding tasks and activities.
✓	Total data visibility integration with other systems creates a single source of truth and powers immediate business results, more impactful decision-making, encourages innovation, and increases resilience, agility, and flexibility.
✓	Better service, increased personalization, more quickly. SaaS systems allow an upshift in managing customer expectations, helping you stay competitive in a rapidly accelerating marketplace.

Learn more in this whitepaper