VietNamNet Bridge – Instead of spending big money to develop information technology infrastructure, software products and keeping labor force to maintain the systems, enterprises now tend to rent software and pay for the capacity used.

Leasing software has become a big choice for both service providers and service users in the current context of economic difficulties.

The service users are the enterprises which need to cut down expenses in the context of the economic difficulties. Meanwhile, information technology firms also want to lease software products, because the service would be the regular income source for them.

New Peaks, a real estate firm, has been using the cloud computing service package for the last year. Hoang Minh Tuan, a senior executive of New Peaks, said he has been satisfactory with the service package which is enough to keep the company’s operation in a normal track.

New Peaks has offices set up in different localities, where officers and workers have to connect each other regularly in their team works. In the past, the company had to spend big money a month to develop the infrastructure system and the labor force to run the system. Nowadays, with the cloud computing services, works still run smoothly, while the company can save a lot of money.

According to Le Son from Home Center, except some changes with the software interface, there has been no change with the features of the software products; therefore, the shifting to using rent software did not cause any problems.

Especially, Son said, the company still can equip more software products for its divisions, while saving money.

Dinh Thi Thuy from NEO Company, a small and medium enterprise, said that the spending on server, back-up devices and software royalty all cost the company 100 million dong. Besides, they also have to pay other kinds of regular expenses such as electricity, room rent for machines, wage for workers (10 million dong a month at least).

Meanwhile, with SAAS (software as a service), the company only has to spend 4000 dong for every computer a day or 1 million dong per capita a year.

Dinh Kien Quoc, General Director of Gimasys, a software leaser, has also noted that the demand for rent software has been increasing. Enterprises rent software not only to practice thrift, but also because they can have different software solutions for their choice.

Home Center, for example, uses software service packages because there has been no limitation in the capacity. The old email system only gave 5-10MB in capacity for an email account, while the rent package gives the “quota” of up to 25GB, which means that the granted quota is enough for 10-year use.

When asked about the market scale, Misa, a service provider, said Misa had got 5000 clients by the end of the first year of providing the service. Meanwhile, NEO has reportedly got 400 clients after six months. Gimnasys has got 100 clients after one year, including the big enterprises with more than 1000 accounts.

According to Giap Hung Cuong, General Director of Vinacis, Vinacis has cooperated with EXA Company to launch the server leasing on the basis of cloud computing truecloud Server. Cuong said the system has been integrated with the on/off function, allowing clients to save money.

Meanwhile, Nguyen Thu Giang, Deputy Secretary of Vinasa, the association of software firms, has admitted that the firms want to push up the service because it brings regular income to them.

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