Labor would revert to a fibre-to-the-premises model, rather than fibre-to-the-node-plus-copper favoured by Turnbull, which it promises would be a faster, better outcome.
This means saying goodbye to the on-premise model unless you are going to support two code bases.
In the on-premise model, which most of SAP's customers use, the customer bears the expense of upgrades.
This all makes for a rich but highly structured ecosystem one that works especially well with an on-premise model that requires physical management of systems.
Kupor says that the biggest drivers toward the on-premise model are the need for integration, security, control and the desire to not have to manage technology through a third-party relationship as you must do for an SaaS offering.
The battle among the larger software companies is being fought between challengers based on the SaaS model which delivers software over the Internet and lets companies offload the responsibility for running their own data center and the traditional on-premise model in which software is installed on computers owned by the companies that use the software.
Remember that in the on-premise model, the dominant way software is used today, the customer installs the software on their computers, which they control nothing is shared and there are many versions of the software that must be managed by the customer.
Cloud computing has become a key piece of an enterprise's IT strategy, typically used in a hybrid (cloud plus on-premise) model of computing that offers customers the best of both worlds: the ability to keep their data on-premise, while leveraging the cloud's accelerated software development speeds and lower costs by eliminating the need to invest in ongoing on-premise hardware and software.
Because a SaaS call center product has to have three phone connections ongoing per each call center agent (versus the traditional two in an on-premise model), it ate into much of the cost savings a customer would experience moving to SaaS.
While the days are gone when any software upgrade will have to be installed on each and every user's computer, the on-premises model for business systems still has a major issue with keeping the system current and stable.
Magic Software provides a third way to give software vendors more flexibility to support both SaaS and on-premise models from the same code base.
