Software as a Service
ISVs and technology partners have often chosen to completely redesign their offerings to be service usage-based, making consumption easier for the customer. To achieve this, the vendors will almost always choose a specific cloud vendor and develop their offering on top of the cloud vendor, making their software available to customers but not giving access to the underlying cloud vendor infrastructure or services. In the case of some very large vendors, they actually prefer to run their own private cloud or on-premises environments that integrate with the customer's chosen cloud services, given their core competency in hyper-scale cloud management.
Software as a Service (SaaS), which is very much cloud computing, is not ...
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