To SaaS Or Not To SaaS?

This was asked in a recent Wired Cloudline Blog Post. Why to subscribe to a Software-as-a-server?
Six reasons are discussed, referring to Zilliant …


  • Total cost of ownership
  • Resource cost
  • Time to value and ease of implementation 
  • Access to innovation
  • Ability to try before you buy
  • Ongoing vendor accountability and engagement 
I could summarize: you have real options - the right to, say, invest into the expansion of the firm's  development systems, or alternatively reduce it ... call or put as you need. Not surprisingly there is an analogy between the modeling of real and financial options.

Axicorda, London, provides advanced analytics and services including, on-demand pricing, risk, hedge analytics web services for asset/investment managers, hedge funds and other distinguished market participants - robust valuation and risk models across currency, fixed income, commodity, equity and credit products. They also provide on-demand portfolio optimization tools extending valuation and risk technologies especially engineered for the demands of modern hedge funds managers.

Grant Fuller, Axicorda's CEO, combines quant finance and software engineering excellence - he is also a Mathematica expert - we met him first at a Wolfram technology conference. 

He selected UnRisk-Q to build his innovations on top of. 

Grant will present the transparency and flexibility aspects of his on-demand services at our 11 Years of UnRisk Event.

To SaaS or not to SaaS? To SaaS! Get a proof at the event.