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SaaS

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/sæs/abbreviationCore term

In software engineering, SaaS means: Short for software as a service: complete software that customers use through a browser or app and pay for by subscription, while the vendor runs everything behind it.

In Turkish: hizmet olarak yazılım, SaaS, bulut tabanlı yazılım

How it is used

Pronounced 'sass'. Email services, CRM systems and team chat tools are typical SaaS products. It is also used as an adjective for companies: 'a SaaS startup', 'SaaS business model'.

Example sentences

  1. We replaced our self-hosted ticket system with a SaaS tool, so there's one less server to maintain.

  2. Most SaaS companies charge per user per month.

Common collocations

  • SaaS product
  • SaaS company
  • SaaS subscription
  • SaaS platform
  • IaaSShort for infrastructure as a service: renting basic building blocks such as virtual machines, disks and networks, while you manage the operating system and everything above it.
  • PaaSShort for platform as a service: a ready-made platform where you only upload your code, and the provider runs the servers, operating system and runtime for you.
  • cloud computingRenting servers, storage, databases and other computing resources over the internet from a provider, instead of buying and running your own hardware.
  • on-premisesDescribes servers and software that a company runs in its own building or data center, rather than renting them from a cloud provider.

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