1. The SaaS Service Desk is not enterprise ready

Commonly perceived as a new idea, SaaS has been around for years, and in that time has SaaS law firm  become enterprise ready. Today the question isn’t “Is SaaS Ready?” SaaS is undoubtedly ready, the question really is, “how many areas can I reduce costs by implementing SaaS-based solutions?” InteQ’s InfraDesk, for example, delivers reliability, scalability and high performance to large, enterprise clients including one that has over 40,000 users located around the globe.

2. The SaaS Service Desk doesn’t save you money

There are several cost-models (espoused by traditional vendors) which maintain that over time, because the initial investments are depreciated, the cost of traditional software solutions will decline. However, this statement does not take into account the cost of imminent, mandatory upgrades that require re-implementation of the service desk each time a new version is released, a common occurrence in the traditional implementation. SaaS also eliminates additional infrastructure costs (such as new hardware and extended storage capacity) and any additional resources required to maintain and administer traditional solutions.

3. The SaaS Service Desk lacks integration capabilities

SaaS Service Desks come “out of the box” today with a wide variety of integration modules. Single-sign-on integration and Active Directory synchronization are two common implementations within SaaS delivered solutions. In rare cases in which an ‘off the shelf’ integration does not exist, SaaS vendors use technology such as XML, and Web Services to provide full integration capabilities to meet any business need.

4. The SaaS Service Desk lacks flexibility

SaaS Service Desks are completely configurable to satisfy the unique needs of the environment. In fact, they are frequently more user-friendly as they have been designed to use web-based technology. There is no workflow configuration or ticketing needs that the SaaS Service Desk cannot meet.

5. The SaaS Service Desk restricts access to data

The SaaS Service Desk provides the customer with transparent access to all their data through either Web 2.0 interfaces, or pre-configured data-download facilities which allows the customer to have all their data in whatever format they require. Internal restrictions may be defined within the environment based on the users’ role.

6. The SaaS Service Desk is not secure

SaaS Service Desks use strict policies and controls to manage industry standard security control objectives. SaaS solutions use dedicated database instances for maximum data segregation between customers and are accessed over SSL connections. SaaS Service Desks provide high availability (> 99.97%) that meet and often exceed the levels for traditional on-premises software and are delivered with encrypted data and transaction backups to ensure quick recovery in the event of any failure.

7. The SaaS Service Desk doesn’t remove my need to “program”

While this depends on your choice of vendor, modern SaaS Service Desks allow you to freely configure your workflow based on business rules and fields within the database. However, some vendo