Moving from On-Premise Solutions to SaaS Models

As the CIO or technology strategist you have made the decision to move to an SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model from the old in-house supported standard. The benefits have outweighed the initial costs and the total cost of ownership is inevitably more affordable for your organization to satisfy business needs. Now it is more important to succeed in this implementation and change. How do you quickly get current staff on board to replace existing systems? There are three defining moments to guaranteeing the off-premise success – 1) winning over the business, 2) gradually deploying groups of functionality, and 3) adaptability and mentoring of existing staff.

Whether you selected Salesforce.com, CRM On Demand, Net Suite, or Right Now, the process was no doubt grueling and competitive and demanding in nature. After all the sales calls, demonstrations, research, vendor customer discussions, and trial software periods, your neck is on the line for making the decision. Do not let all the efforts be wasted with no user adoption or employee dissatisfaction, or worse, halt in business operations. Find success by implementing these three strategies.

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