Phil Wainewright has a post up covering the SIIA OnDemand Summit, Below are some excerpts from the same:

Abhijit Dubey of McKinsey revealed that a new survey by his organization has found that the proportion of CIOs considering adopting SaaS applications in the coming year has gone from 38% a year ago to 61% now. "That's a huge jump," he said

Accenture's Philippe Vincent spoke of the SI's journey of discovery since starting to develop a SaaS practice a year ago to begin working with salesforce.com. "We've learned that there is a value for partners. There is a place for us to add value as consultants." Opportunities for Accenture include identifying business processes and training people to use them, as well as building complementary application services. "The beauty of building these services is that we can then Reuse them for other clients," he added."

One of the things we have noticed that we actually like is that since the application's on demand, there is a notion of technical risk that has been removed, and that allows us to concentrate on other elements of business risk such as change management. In general it makes us look good.

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Prashanth Rai