SAAS Is Revamping The It Infrastructure:

Excerpts from an interview with Ajit Chandrasekharan, Director, Carnival infrastructure Pvt Ltd.

1. Cloud-based SaaS technology is revamping the IT infrastructure of Companies. It was speculated that developing countries will greatly benefit from this technology. Do you see it happening in India, especially in the SMEs sector? SaaS technology is making a revolutionary change in IT infrastructure and development, wherein clients are benefitted to pay in subscription and the solutions are customized to their requirement. Companies who are not able to spend high on capex due to resources are most beneficial as they can get the same services like they have their own infrastructure. India which is the land of SMEs or start-ups, it’s a big boon as they have to compete in their core business with others and without a proper IT infrastructure, it is not possible.

2. Do you think Mid Segment and Small Businesses in India have the needed infrastructure to scale on the Cloud-based SaaS software? This is the most important feature of the SaaS technology wherein the small or medium business doesn’t have to invest much to enjoy the software services, in SaaS, the software middleware, and the hardware is managed by the service provider and the companies pay as per usage on different models like subscription, license fees etc. Today many companies have put data warehousing to store data on cloud which can be rented; many service providers use this as the storage to serve the clients or have their own servers. In our case, we give the option to a client to host in their own infrastructure or on our servers or in third party premises.