Software as a service

The distinction between software as a product and software as a service seems more relevant to research. As Prince [22] suggests, the fact that software is sold and used as a prepackaged item means that strict liability obtains. Should there be a defect in the software, the manufacturer is held liable. Flowever, and especially with research, software is often written with a specific purpose in mind. As such, the programmer is providing a service rather than a product. In the case of software written specifically for a certain research purpose, the liability may not fall exclusively on the software provider. In those situations, it behooves the researcher to be very clear in knowing and stating his or her purposes to the programmer. 

From time to time most complex HIT systems unexpectedly become partly or fully unavailable. Modem systems are architected to minimise the impact of such occurrences on the level of service experienced by the user. Indeed some contracts penalise hosting organisations significantly should they arise. The move towards software as a service means that systems can be hosted on highly resilient platforms in state... 

Software solutions. Companies no longer want to buy license software. The evolution of software as a service (SaaS) and iTUnes concepts are shifting purchasing behavior. The shift is from a large purchase (license software model) to one of rental (incremental payments based on usage). This shift in the sale of enterprise software also redefines the customer relationship to drive higher levels of satisfaction and customer value. 

Second, current KBE applications or templates (within CAD systems) only weakly address the issue of workflow integration. The European iPROD project [12] aims to address this through the development of models and tools for workflow integration into KBE. The project iPROD also considers KBE as a service (Software-as-a-Service, SaaS), thereby addressing a third challenge in KBE research, which is to support web collaborative solutions and open source initiatives [5]. 

These services have become productive in 2011 and as of 2014 serve more than 300 companies. The platform is used by its founders and their international partners and suppliers. Two main benefits are targeted first, the use of these standardized services by the main European OEMs is anticipated to dramatically improve the generic collaboration with suppliers and interoperability with their information systems. Second, the platform is to reduce process cycles and overall costs. The mentioned services are provided as Software as a Service (SaaS) for all OEMs, suppliers and small companies along the whole supply chain, enabling them to potentially make the same gains in competitiveness as the five founders. 

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Provider/Cloud user... 

From Fig. 1 we can see the students are the main entity and already using many of the cloud platforms like Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) for obtaining the advantages of the ability of working and communicating in the educational sector. The faculty can also benefit from the cloud platform for teaching and research purposes. Now, they will not worry for loss of lecture material, not need to carry study materials for security in pen drives or disks, etc. Third, the entity staff, specially developers, can benefit from Infrastructure as a Service (laaS)... 

Of course, by 2008, many companies, such as Google Search and Microsoft Hotmail, were already operating extensive private clouds that delivered proprietary SaaS (software as a service). These companies had found it necessary to develop the programming and operational expertise to run such installations. 

Banerjee, S., Srikanth, H. Cukic B. 2010. Log-based reliability analysis of Software as a Service (SaaS). Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering 1 239-248. 

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a hot topic these days and is considered by many people to be the enterprise computing framework of the future. In SOA, each software unit runs on a piece of hardware as a service that can be called by many different consumers. For example, a compound registration service can be called by a library enumeration tool and a chemistry e-notebook to fulfill compound registration tasks. The most popular SOA is Web services that are based on HTTP and XML or SOAP standards although SOA as a concept has existed for awhile and is not limited to Web services. SOA has a lot of advantages, the most important of which is code reuse and improved productivity. However, it also presents a lot of challenges. 

Listed in this compendium are sources of software that may be of benefit to computational chemists and others interested in applying the techniques. This compendium is provided as a service to both software developers and software consumers. The aim is to advance the field by making the tools widely known. 

Best of all, you may order the Ventis with iNet -Industrial Scientific s software-based service that increases safety by providing visibility into alarms, exposure and usage. With iNet patrons are delighted to find that they do not have to buy the Ventis and instead can subscribe to Gas Detection as a Service for a f I monthly fee. 

Examples include - communications drivers - fault handling - executive software Exampies inciude - input/output functions - derived functions (for exampie sensor checking if not provided as a service of the embedded software)... 

Cloud computing, or providing software as a set of services to a computing device, is predicted to be the primary software model for the future. The origins of cloud computing go back to the early days of distributed computing, but it is not clear exactly who should get credit for its creation. 

In the FEM calculation, software is used that operates on the finite element method. A data model of the mold or a mold part is read into the software. The data model also includes the part contour. Under certain conditions (cavity temperature, melt temperature, etc.), a temperature control layout is designed around the molded part with the help of special software. The computer can then simulate three-dimensional temperature distribution in the mold. If undesirable temperature values occur in certain areas, the previously defined temperature channel layout can be changed. Through the simulation, the temperature control system can be virtually changed until a possibly optimum condition is achieved. The advantage of this technique is that the simulation allows a three-dimensional view of the heat flows and temperatures. In addition, this technique is very accurate (but only if the boundary conditions have been practically defined ). The disadvantages are the costs and the need for specialized staff and appropriate software licenses. Therefore, such designs are often purchased as a service. 

Examples Include — communications drivers — fault handling — execuUve software. Examples include — input/output functions — derived funcHona (for example sensor checking If not provided as a service of the embedded aoftware). 

Microsoft Dynamics CRM (www.crm.ms) The benefit to implementing a solution like Microsoft Dynamics CRM is that it integrates nicely with other Microsoft solutions such as Office and SharePoint. As a result, you get a consistent user experience across multiple Microsoft platforms. Dynamics is also easy to use and has powerful reporting capabilities that integrate with Microsoft Excel. Dynamics also backs up its software with a service-level agreement (SLA) that promises 99.9 percent uptime, which is more than what memy of the other CRM providers offer. 

What Support or Resources They Can Expect. You should consider in advance what the design team s resource needs might be and how you can address them realistically. For example, if funds exist for travel, outside consulting services, or project management software, these maybe useful expenditures. Similarly, administrative support can expedite the team s efforts. Whatever the level of support your company can provide, if s important to make it clear if you must undertake systems design as a bare-bones effort, the team needs to know it in advance to avoid unrealistic expectations. 

LIMS as rented service— The application service provision provider (ASP) is a means of obtaining access to software applications without the need to acquire expensive licenses and hardware or employ high-cost support resources [7]. The application is hosted on a third-party site with system maintenance, backup, and recovery provided by a third party. Products and services can be rented for a contract period on a fixed cost per user/per month basis. The advantages of obtaining LIMS in this fashion include reduced cost in initial investment and reduced requirement of resources for maintaining the LIMS. The continued security and integrity of the data transferred over the Internet is a major concern for this type of LIMS. 

Web in the life of the medicinal chemist. One may see the development of alerting services for the primary medicinal chemistry journals. The Web-based information search process could be replaced by a much more structured one based on metadata, derived by automated processing of the original full-text article. To discover new and potentially interesting articles, the user subscribes to the RSS feeds of relevant publishers and can simply search the latest items that appear automatically for keywords of interest. The article download is still necessary, but it may be possible for the client software to automatically invoke bibliographic tools to store the found references. Another application of the Chemical Semantic Web may be as alerting services for new additions to chemical databases where users get alerts for the new additions of structures or reactions. 

Johnson [17] identifies several topics related to liability, and she offers an important distinction as well. Among the topics related to liability and computer use in general are legal liability, the duty of honesty, the nature of contracts, misrepresentation, express and implied warranties, and negligence [17]. The relevant distinction concerns the nature of software as either a product or a service. Many of these topics hold little interest for the ethicist investigating computer ethics. For instance, legal liability is less important to philosophy than to jurisprudence. 

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