| Software-as-a-Service is good for the environment |
Each person or company in North America has a carbon dioxide footprint that can be estimated in which it indicates how much damage each person or company is doing to our environment.
The SaaS Movement lead by CRM software vendors such as Salesforce.com
and Salesboom.com
are eliminating tens if not hundreds of thousands of servers and hardware equipment required by traditional CRM solutions by offering CRM as a service in a multi-tenant shared environment.
Also the fact that these applications are online, cuts on printing of user manuals greatly. From my experience CRM demonstrations, presentations and training sessions in the SaaS industry are also performed online saving on emissions released by traveling.
Ideally, a CRM vendor that offers it's solutions as a hosted service, should choose a solar powered hosting provider and become 100% friendly to our beloved environment. But until that happens, choosing a hosted CRM solution over a traditional installed one is a great contribution to save our earth.