{"id":4171,"date":"2019-12-12T16:51:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T11:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2025-02-27T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T10:29:39","slug":"sharepoint-online-a-saas-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/sharepoint-online-a-saas-solution","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint Online \u2013 A SaaS Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/sharepoint-online-a-saas-solution\/#Higher_Adoption_Rates\" title=\"Higher Adoption Rates:\u00a0\">Higher Adoption Rates:\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/sharepoint-online-a-saas-solution\/#Robust_and_High_Availability\" title=\"Robust and High Availability:\">Robust and High Availability:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/sharepoint-online-a-saas-solution\/#Strengthens_the_Integration_Process\" title=\"Strengthens the Integration Process:\">Strengthens the Integration Process:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/sharepoint-online-a-saas-solution\/#Reduced_Operation_Costs\" title=\"Reduced Operation Costs:\">Reduced Operation Costs:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/sharepoint-online-a-saas-solution\/#Unlimited_Scaling_Options\" title=\"Unlimited Scaling Options:\">Unlimited Scaling Options:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Developing a SharePoint website can be a huge task when you have some unrealistic business requirements for your organization. Now, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/dedicated-sharepoint-developer\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SharePoint developer<\/span><\/a>, it is your task to choose a perfect design, implement and manage the site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We all know that SharePoint has immense capabilities of providing the enterprises with public facing websites, extranets or intranets for many versions but these are all associated with the enterprise costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As organizations have started to fix their attention upon them, their need for SaaS based solutions have also increased. Gartner has defined SaaS as a software that is owned, managed and delivered remotely by one or more providers. With the onset of most industries moving to the cloud, some major players within this area have started to offer complete SaaS based analytics solutions for SharePoint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">SharePoint SaaS:\u00a0 Some Advantages<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/sharepoint-consultation\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SharePoint consultant<\/span><\/a> for the past 10 years, I have witnessed the increased popularity of SharePoint Online as Software as a Service compared to any on premises deployment. Here in this blog, I will discuss some of the main trends that will help you to keep up with in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Higher_Adoption_Rates\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Higher Adoption Rates:\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Since SaaS applications are easily accessible from any web browser, any SaaS based solution often has a low learning curve and higher adoption rates. The users can now become more comfortable as the solution won\u2019t have many technical roadblocks and will also be available to them around the clock access.\u00a0 SharePoint team leaders who have to produce some of the vital reports to the management can easily access the insights via a table and share the reports even on the via an email.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><a href=\"\/blog\/setting-up-internal-communications-using-sharepoint\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Setting Up Internal Communications Using SharePoint<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Robust_and_High_Availability\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Robust and High Availability:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Another major factor for selecting a SaaS based solution is their high reliability and availability. SharePoint SaaS solution backups and data recovery are all considered by the provider, and this saves a lot of laborious hours of backing up the data on a weekly basis.\u00a0 The SaaS solutions help to eliminate the task by automating the backups and ensuring that the data is available and also stays protected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Strengthens_the_Integration_Process\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #003366;\"><strong>Strengthens the Integration Process:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">SaaS helps to integrate various digital tools as closely as possible and this helps to increase the employee productivity.\u00a0 SharePoint integrates with many Microsoft and third party tools and systems and this helps to eliminate the silo approach of organizations. When a company decides to move with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/sharepoint-development\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SharePoint Online development<\/span><\/a>, they don\u2019t have to worry about whether the tools that they are familiar working with will work or not with the introduction of SharePoint into their existing infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Reduced_Operation_Costs\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #003366;\"><strong>Reduced Operation Costs:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With a SaaS based solution, business companies can only pay what they need. They don\u2019t have to purchase any hardware and infrastructure to host their on-premises software as the vendors can easily provide APIs and performs the work to get the service running. With on-premise solutions, the time to get a software up may take around months or weeks. A SaaS based solution helps organizations to have a complete service running within hours or days.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><a href=\"\/blog\/how-to-ensure-a-smooth-office-365-migration-for-your-sharepoint-website\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">How to Ensure a Smooth Office 365 Migration for Your SharePoint Website<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Unlimited_Scaling_Options\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Unlimited Scaling Options:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Business organizations grow with time and often need to scale up or down according to the number of users using the portal. With some major organizational shifts, this means adding large amounts of investments to build the infrastructure. But changing to SharePoint SaaS development can help to support small to medium businesses as well as organizations having large traffic volumes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Understanding the benefits of SharePoint SaaS will help you to shape your vision upon your future business solution and its value and also decide upon why to use the cloud deployment of SharePoint, a SaaS solution.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing a SharePoint website can be a huge task when you have some unrealistic business requirements for your organization. Now, as a SharePoint developer, it is your task to choose a perfect design, implement and manage the site. 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