NetDirector™ e-Trade Pro

“Convenience and low pricing will lure new entrants, small businesses and departments of large corporations to e-commerce delivered as a service.”

e-Trade Pro is an ecommerce software solution that adopts the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model unlike the majority of other ecommerce solutions in the market. Benefits of SaaS over conventional models are well documented by Wikipedia:

“Software-as-a-Service (SaaS, typically pronounced ‘Sass’) is a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across the Internet. By eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer’s own computer, SaaS alleviates the customer’s burden of software maintenance, ongoing operation, and support. Conversely, customers relinquish control over software versions or changing requirements; moreover, costs to use the service become a continuous expense, rather than a single expense at time of purchase. Using SaaS also can conceivably reduce the up-front expense of software purchases, through less costly, on-demand pricing. From the software vendor’s standpoint, SaaS has the attraction of providing stronger protection of its intellectual property and establishing an ongoing revenue stream. The SaaS software vendor may host the application on its own web server, or this function may be handled by a third-party application service provider (ASP). This way, end users may reduce their investment on server hardware too.”
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“By 2013, 90 percent of ecommerce sites will use at least one product from software as a service, or SaaS(define) vendors, according to a Gartner report released today. And 40 percent of e-commerce sites will use a complete SaaS solution.”

For more on this report, please click this link:
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3762486