TRUE SaaS vs Hosted Cloud – why does it matter?
So, GrantsNow is a TRUE SaaS solution that has a single codebase for all clients – what does this mean?
For GrantsNow, you can easily and rapidly make any configuration changes which are unique to your University – these will require coding and programming with competitor products. We hear that this often takes weeks (or sometimes months) to be delivered by competitors, due to limited capacity on their Dev teams. When you upgrade, it is also costly and time consuming to then move all these customisations to the new version.
When we make an upgrade with GrantsNow, it is immediately available to all customers. With competitors, they need to manually install this on every instance for each customer – very time consuming again.
For the reasons stated above, should you require any of these changes and updates to be made, our competitors will charge for it – bringing unforeseen budget requirements. With GrantsNow, we will train your admins on how to easily make these changes themselves, or we can do this for you as part of our support contract.
TRUE SaaS offers instant upgrades, easy configurations, and zero costly customisations
GrantsNow gives you full control, instant upgrades, and zero hidden fees
How to Tell the Difference between SaaS and Hosted Solutions?
At first glance, it can be difficult to tell the difference between a SaaS or hosted/on-premises solution. There are, however, a few pointed questions you can ask a solution provider to answer to help you determine the true configuration of their system.
Here are a few questions you can ask to determine whether a provider is offering a true SaaS solution. To see the full list, download our e-book below:
Are all your clients on the exact same codebase or are they on variations of a common codebase? A true SaaS solution has a single codebase for all clients.
Is the platform single instance multi-tenant or is it multi-instance? A single instance, multi-tenant solution is a configurable SaaS platform with a single codebase. This is the only true SaaS model. Multi-instance implies multiple instances of code that are unique to each client.