XaaS - Whatever-as-a-Service
Most people in technology these days are familiar with, or have at least heard of, SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service. I have recently seen Integration-as-a-Service or IaaS, and witnessed a proposal for BPOaaS, or Business Process Outsourcing-as-a-Service. The latter was more of a tongue-in-cheek sort of comment. This means it may be time to revisit the x+ variable acronym system, the x+VAS.
I decided to post about the creation of the term XaaS (pronounced Zaas), meaning whatever (the variable "x")-as-a-Service. I then decided to Google this little gem and found... duh duh duh... someone already coined the term. And they made a video to:
After we come up with enough XaaS acronyms, as more and more "things" move the "as-a-service" model, hopefully we can drop the "aaS" and just call it, once again, Software or Integration or BPO. Hopefully this will come as part of the understanding that we have dropped the silly legacy pricing / licensing model in favor of the more liberal, and in my opinion more profitable, utility pricing model.
I for one welcome our XaaS overlords!
- Lincoln
I decided to post about the creation of the term XaaS (pronounced Zaas), meaning whatever (the variable "x")-as-a-Service. I then decided to Google this little gem and found... duh duh duh... someone already coined the term. And they made a video to:
After we come up with enough XaaS acronyms, as more and more "things" move the "as-a-service" model, hopefully we can drop the "aaS" and just call it, once again, Software or Integration or BPO. Hopefully this will come as part of the understanding that we have dropped the silly legacy pricing / licensing model in favor of the more liberal, and in my opinion more profitable, utility pricing model.
I for one welcome our XaaS overlords!
- Lincoln
Labels: SaaS
This entry was posted by Lincoln Murphy, on
Thursday, March 1, 2007.
You can leave your response.
