Software-as-a-Service has been around for years, and adoption is growing in more and more customer segments. The math is simple. Pay for the functionality and offload the headache to somebody else. It’s fast, it scales, it’s good enough, and for the most part it’s less expensive.

Business users were at the vanguard of the SaaS adoption curve, leveraging on-demand offerings to keep up with the pace of business and gain access to enterprise level functionality without having the fight the battles involved in deploying enterprise software in the company. Just look at what Salesforce.com has done for business, sales, and marketing professionals in any size organization.

The second wave of SaaS applications is clearly here, and it’s all about IT. From the pioneers of on-demand IT, like on-line backup, to the web-centric security suites that probe websites for vulnerabilities, SaaS for IT management is here.

Aprigo’s SaaS solution continues to innovate and break new ground in the SaaS for IT Management space. By providing customers with 90% of the functionality for 10% of the cost of on-premise enterprise solutions, Aprigo enables IT pros to focus on what matters, managing the business assets and focus less on the underlying infrastructure to enable that.

Aprigo is focused on data, not storage or bits on disk, configurations of RAID controllers, firmware, or zoning. We’re not focused on the business applications either, no end-user collaboration or sharing. We’re focused on the data and the gap where it lives, between the business creators and owners of the data, and the IT pros that are chartered with the care and responsibility of safeguarding this critical business data.

Unlike any other IT asset, data is everywhere, and touched by everyone in the company. IT is purely outnumbered, and this is clearly a trend that will only grow. By focusing in the Business to IT gap, we help bridge this devide and enable IT pros to quickly and simply address business needs (security and cost containment), put out fires, and keep them out.

How does it work?

Aprigo’s unique SaaS architecture is a pure-SaaS/hybrid-SaaS solution. For cloud based data, our solution requires no installations, simply authorizing access via web-enabled API’s. For data that resides on-premise, Aprigo’s hybrid-SaaS solution is very light. By simply collecting metadata from the customer’s premises from disperate systems and then crunching on our cloud infrastructure we allow customers to be up and running in minutes, with a full-featured application on their data.