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charge for access. Other Web applications, like Google Maps, are offered for

free. Users of these Web applications don’t own this software; you don’t get

an installation DVD, nor is it something you can download once and keep

using. If you want to use a Web application, you must get on the Internet and

access the site. While this may seem like a disadvantage at first, the SaaS

model provides access to necessary applications wherever you have an

Internet connection, often without having to carry data with you or regularly

update software. At the enterprise level, the subscription model of many SaaS

providers makes it easier to budget and keep hundreds or thousands of

computers up to date (see Figure 22-32).

Figure 22-32 SaaS versus every desktop for themselves

The challenge to defining SaaS perfectly is an argument that almost

anything you access on the Internet could be called SaaS. A decade ago we

would’ve called the Google search engine a Web site, but it provides a

service (search) that you do not own and that you must access on the Internet.

If you’re on the Internet, you’re arguably always using SaaS.

It isn’t all icing, though. In exchange for the flexibility of using public,

third-party SaaS, you often have to trade strict control of your data. Security

might not be crucial when someone uses Google Drive to draft a blog post,

but many companies are concerned about sensitive intellectual property or

business secrets traveling through untrusted networks and being stored on

servers they don’t control.

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