Open Source Project Planning SaaS Market

Project planning has become very important to companies all over the world. Project planning was initially thought of as a modern planning tool and something that would soon phase out, has become a discipline that is constantly changing and increasingly being implemented in most companies. With the constantly changing and improving technology market, many tools have been brought into play in the project planning category. One open source project planning tool that is increasingly becoming popular is the Software as a Service (SaaS) tool.

The SaaS has been developed through technology advancement which now allows for project planning software to be utilized online and be hired from SaaS solution providers. This online solution was first introduced with the likes of Salesforce.com which offered online customer relationship planning (CRM) and Project Insight which offered a web based project planning tool.

These SaaS programs came with certain advantages, the key one being the fact that all members of the project teams could access the projects from any computer anywhere in the world. This was highly advantageous as it provided these project team members with the opportunity to access the project and update their tasks as well as communicate on the project with all project partners.

The SaaS market is on the rise with many companies embracing this web based technology in a bid to stay ahead of the game. Companies such as Google and Microsoft have already taken up the technology with the likes of GoogleApps being used by more than two million companies.