“SaaS in China”, the third annual conference of China’s software as a service industry held in Nanjing on June 25, 2009. This session is co-sponsored by the CCW Research and Nanjing High-tech Economic Development Corporation. Olymtech was invited to the session and won the Innovation Award two years in the row.
It is reported that the current session with “The SaaS application under the path of transformation and upgrading ” as its theme, focused on two major parts, “how to make effective SaaS applications” and “how enterprises deal with the impact of international crises through the adoption of SaaS”. There were nearly a hundred SaaS companies attending the conference, including Olymtech, Successfactor, Intel, Alisoft, Ufida, Kingdee, Xtools, 800app as well as more than 400 end-user customers. This session aimed at promoting the development of domestic SaaS industry together with the small and medium-sized enterprises.
Prior to this, CCW Research had successfully organized two SaaS conferences in 2007 and 2008 in Beijing and Ningbo respectively. “SaaS in China” has become the most authoritative and influential event in China as well as the best communication platform for SaaS players and business users.
Jim Wang, chairman of Olymtech, gave a speech named after his first speech in 2008, “You can be part of SaaS” and shared the vision of making everyone to build its own business platform upon SaaS with all the participants of this session. In his speech, Jim elaborated the way traditional enterprises delivering their services to customers and partners through software, and proposed an innovative concept of “Service-as-a-Software”. Olymtech, as a pioneer of SaaS and SaaS platform provider and carrier, has always been advocating and devoting itself to realize the idea of making every company its own SaaS platform, and to enable customers improving their services and competitiveness through SaaS.
Jim also brought exciting news from the result of a survey conducted by IDC market research firm in the US. According to IDC, the revenue of SaaS in 2009 will reach 9.5 billion US dollars globally. Moreover, its predicted growth rate 42% is in sharp contrast with that of traditional software and application software, which are 3.4% and 5.6% respectively. In addition, according to the survey, about 88% of all the companies using SaaS claim that they will continue or even expand their usage of SaaS, and about 45% companies has found at least one application that can be transplanted to SaaS. By the year 2012, 76% of companies in the US will use at least one SaaS application.
Furthermore, CCW Research released 3 research reports in the third SaaS meeting, “Report on Market Research of China’s SaaS in 2009”, “China's SaaS Application Case Set in 2009” and “Special Investigation Report on China's SaaS in 2009”. The “Report on Market Research of China’s SaaS in 2009” gives in-depth analysis and comments on the development of SaaS in China over the past year, including its status quo, development trends and competition. While the “China's SaaS Application Case Set in 2009” sorts out all the successful SaaS application cases for manufacturers and industry users. “Special Investigation Report on China's SaaS in 2009”, on the other hand, reports the perspectives of 30 elites on the SaaS industry and its development based on special investigations.
