SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS MOVING TOWARDS A UNIFIED COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM IN IT. SAAS MAY BE THE NEW ORIENTATION.

In this paper we will present an alternative way of programming. Our opinion is that, in the next few years, software development business will suffer serious changes. Software vendors will adopt SaaS (Software as a Service) as the new way of selling their products. We will try to guide you through the basic concepts of this relatively new domain. The article also includes a brief description of an application, developed indoor but using SaaS applications for some of its modules. In the end we want to make an SWOT analysis of the opportunity of using SaaS.