The Research Of Software Services Chain Based On SaaS

Innovation is always the motility of making information industry development. However, in this round of development in software industry, the motility is not technology innovation, it is the change of delivery. Traditional delivery of software depended on selling software license. This brings huge cost of using and maintenance to software buyers, but the new way, software as a service, could let users gain the function conveniently with low cost. Seas takes great transform to traditional software industry, and will change the competitive landscape of the industry. But how could we grape the chance to accelerate development of national software industry. In this paper, taking advantage of services chain concept, the author build software services chain basing on Seas to integrate the resources of software development for the aim of increasing competitive strength and promoting Chinese software industry development.Software services chain is a totally new concept. There are not many papers about it. The research on supply chain and service chain is relative rich. Based on that research, the author analyzes software service chain from tech foundation, construction and key questions.Firstly, software services chain is a breakthrough both in tech and business operation mode. Services oriented changed development of software and renting software changed the business mode of software industry. The two things work together bringing up software services chain.Structure always the key point when we research chain. Software services chain is a new concept and there are not informed researches. However, it helps us defining the structure that analyzing timeline of evolution and constrictive analyzing software supply chain and software services chain. And analyzing the role and relationship of members of software service chain led us know the structure of software services chain base on Seas. Services operators of Seas is the core of the chain, they bring software developers and consumers together in their plat. This structure fully shows the advantages of software services chain.Next step is to analyze key points about software services chain. Selection in the chain includes how operator selects ISVs and how clients select operators. After those, the author successful explains the software services chain based on Seas.At last, using a case help us know more about software service chain and show the utility of this paper. From the case the author show us that taking advantages of software services chain could build competitive business mode which help software firms developing quickly and grapping this golden chance to create IT miracle.