Recently, Chris Thorman posted an interesting blog “SaaS v. On-premises Software: Which One is More Green?”  He compared energy consumption of a business before and after they adopted the SaaS system. “That’s a 93% reduction in overall energy consumption,” Chris wrote in his blog.

According to Chris, the energy consumption reduction comes from:

Economies of Scale: businesses dump their own servers and share their software vendor’s server. As more and more users begin to share the server, the average energy consumption of each user decreases dramatically.

On demand computing:  computing resources are made available to the user as needed.

93% reduction is a very impressive number, isn’t it?

Actually, in retail field, there are more and more retailers beginning to adopt SaaS based retail management systems. There are a number of reasons why they choose SaaS based retail management systems over traditional ones, including real time reporting. However, few retailers realize that SaaS Technology can make them greener.  

Imagine how much energy consumption you can save annually with a SaaS based retail management system!  Let your store go green with SaaS technology!