Software as a Service (SaaS), also known as 'OnDemand', is a software delivery and management model that lets companies deploys systems without needing to buy the underlying systems, as well as hardware or software and then change the number of users up or down as the demand requires. Key attributes of a SaaS system are:

• Requires no customer-owned/managed hardware, software or other infrastructure except Internet access. All hardware and software is managed by the vendor at a secure and high availability hosting site.
• IT resources and their management are included in the fee. Customer need not allocate any IT resources to the project.
• Pay only for functions used and the time that they are used, with billing methods enabling flexibility to "get in or get out" at certain points of the billing cycle.
• All users run the same software code and multiple organizations share the application software, though each organization can only see its own data. As a result, no "customization" of the software is allowed, but users can change the parameters to configure the application for its unique approval or review workflow without writing any custom code.

Assetlink is also available in an OnDemand/SaaS model to those Fortune 1000 organizations, which want to deploy Strategic Planning, Marketing Workbench or Digital Asset Management capabilities in one business unit and try it out before making a corporate-wide decision. In addition, Assetlink OnDemand is the right choice for mid-sized marketing organizations. Such organizations can manage their marketing operations more efficiently without having to acquire marketing software (Marketing Operations Management, also known as Enterprise Marketing Management) and underlying hardware and software or needing to get IT to allocate any resources for deployment.

Since Assetlink OnDemand eliminates the need to acquire hardware, software or IT resources and uses configuration rather than customization to map the product to specific process workflow, it dramatically accelerates its customer's time-to-value while significantly reducing cost of ownership, resulting in a very high ROI. Assetlink has more than five years experience providing its solution under an OnDemand/SaaS model for Global 2000 customers and has the entire infrastructure in place.