The world has already moved to Ready Software products from Custom built Software. Within ready product, the trend Globally is large enterprise wide monolithic products to process or function specific or small, miniaturised, component based software products and components that have an open data interface. This gives ability to create variety of solutions integrating versatile software products and components.
This flexibility has been made possible by emergence of
· Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
· Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
The SaaS and PaaS both offers models most suitable to SMEs as applications gives inbuilt ability of mobility and easy and rapid deployment and integration.