What useful service can be provided to users in SaaS?
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I want to do my final year project in Cloud domain, and found SaaS as the most suitable thing for me right now. I just need some thoughts on useful services, I was thinking about Dropbox like utility, but its all about storage.
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I want to do my final year project in Cloud domain, and found SaaS as the most suitable thing for me right now. I just need some thoughts on useful services, I was thinking about Dropbox like utility, but its all about storage.
You found SaaS to be right, but don't know a project? Usually we pick a project first, and then determine "how". Things that can be done as a service include more than storage; you'll have to get a bit creative. Scan these forums, and you'll find that a lot of questions keep coming back. Most of those problems could be solved by a third party, and presented as a service.
- Conversions, from text to PDF, Html, Word, Excel, you name it.
- Communication (Google wave, MSN Messenger) / presence
- Getting a location/placename from a IP-address
- Generating a encryption key[^]
- Administrate applications; connect to the Active Directory and make it available for the admin from his laptop.
Hope this gives some ideas on what could be done; good luck and let us know how it worked out :)
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You found SaaS to be right, but don't know a project? Usually we pick a project first, and then determine "how". Things that can be done as a service include more than storage; you'll have to get a bit creative. Scan these forums, and you'll find that a lot of questions keep coming back. Most of those problems could be solved by a third party, and presented as a service.
- Conversions, from text to PDF, Html, Word, Excel, you name it.
- Communication (Google wave, MSN Messenger) / presence
- Getting a location/placename from a IP-address
- Generating a encryption key[^]
- Administrate applications; connect to the Active Directory and make it available for the admin from his laptop.
Hope this gives some ideas on what could be done; good luck and let us know how it worked out :)
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
Kindly explain the last point, regarding Active Directory.
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Kindly explain the last point, regarding Active Directory.
The idea behind SaaS is to "rent out software or service"; I was more thinking about having the administrational side of the AD available as a service, but not directly in the SaaS way. Come to think of it, there's an open-source Linux application called "Samba" which is used to integrate Linux-pc's in a Windows-network. That would take a "bunch" of programmers, I'm afraid, since it would be a lot of work.
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