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Software as a Service. That little term receives plenty of hype. MSPmentor’s own SaaS 20 Stock Index — down roughly 15 percent so far this year — shows that the SaaS hype isn’t quite living up to expectations this year.

Now comes word that Lawson Software — a key ERP (enterprise resource planning) software company serving the mid-market — doesn’t believe in SaaS. In fact, Lawson CEO Harry Debes predicts the SaaS market will collapse within two years.

SaaS certainly faces some challenges. But Debes is wrong. SaaS is here to stay. And it’s going to be dominant. Here are five reasons Debe and other SaaS doubters will wind up eating their words.

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Apparently, Symantec’s SaaS (software as a service) platform, known as Symantec Protection Network (SPN), hasn’t exactly set the world on fire since its launch earlier this year. In fact, Symantec has been unusually quiet about SPN’s progress in recent months.

But that changed last week, when the company described some of the bumps SPN has hit during Symantec Vision — a customer conference held in Las Vegas. Read More >

Jeff Kaplan, a SaaS and managed services thought leader at Think IT Services, has some pretty strong opinions about Hewlett-Packard’s buyout of Electronic Data Systems.

I think Jeff and I are on the same page. HP gains new scale and little overlap by acquiring EDS. On Tuesday I pointed out that EDS doesn’t do much — if anything — for HP’s SaaS and managed services efforts.

But Jeff uses far more direct language when describing HP’s SaaS and managed services shortcomings so far.

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