Software-as-a-service (SaaS): Perspectives and challenges

Science China Information Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1-15

  Tsai, WeiTek ^a,b   Bai, XiaoYing ^b   Huang, Yu ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

customization; multi tenancy architecture; redundancy and recovery; SaaS architecture; scalability; software as a service

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS); MIDDLEWARE; PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS); RECOVERY; REDUNDANCY; SCALABILITY; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOFTWARE DESIGN; WEB SERVICES;

CUSTOMIZATION; CUSTOMIZATION STRATEGIES; IMPORTANT FEATURES; MULTI-TENANCY ARCHITECTURES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RECOVERY MECHANISMS; SECURITY ISOLATIONS; SERVICE-ORIENTED APPROACHES;

SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE (SAAS);

EID: 84895778322     PISSN: 1674733X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-013-5050-z     Document Type: Article

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