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There were a spate of studies last year predicting great growth of SaaS and cloud services. These studies have indeed proved accurate for the most part, with the cloud growing by leaps and bounds and being firmly accepted as the technology of the future, which is already upon us. To gives us an update of where SaaS is expected to head, AMI just published another study about the outlook for SaaS titled "SMB Cloud Services Practice". The study surveyed respondents worldwide, and here is what it found. - A whopping 750,000 small businesses (12%) already use cloud services, as opposed to 20,000 (24%) medium sized businesses.This means there is still a vast untapped market that SaaS providers will look to larger. - The hybrid model seems to have a greater appeal for companies with 78% of SBs having a mix of on premise and cloud software, as opposed to31% of MBs. - Cloud related spending is expected to explode to $94 Billion by 2014 - Cloud based Business email, messaging services are expected to lead the areas of growth in SaaS with 134 K non SaaS US SMBs planning to adopt it/ - This will be followed by online storage and backup, with 129 K US SMBs planning to adopt this service. - The third most important area of cloud growth will be online document managers and collaboration software.with 125k US SMBs planning to opt for these services. Web based intranet software has not made the list, most probably because it was seen as a subset of collaboration services by AMI. AMI expect companies like Microsoft and IBM which provide hybrid services best poised to leverage this growth.
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