Why Software as a Service (SaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS) is an emergent mechanism of delivering software applications to customers over the Internet. Software as a Service or On Demand software can be implemented rapidly and eliminates the infrastructure and ongoing costs that traditional applications require. The eBillingHub offers all the following advantages of Software as a Service.

Low cost of entry

As opposed to on premise software, the eBillingHub is delivered to organizations as a subscription model. This means that the costs are granular in nature and are incurred only as long as benefits are achieved. This does away with the large up front payments and significant annual license fees. The eBillingHub offers a simple pay as you go pricing with no long term contractual requirements.

Zero Infrastructure - Reduced Overheads

Since the application is hosted by the service provider, investing in expensive infrastructure is no longer required. All large initial investments on hardware, licenses, databases, ongoing overheads of employing and training IT staff, software and hardware maintenance and upgrades are managed by the eBillingHub. Customers can access and use the application on the Internet through any browser. No local infrastructure, no headache of upgrading aging technology, and a protection from unforeseen expense spikes.

Single Instance, Multi-Tenant Efficiency

The eBillingHub is implements a multi-tenant architecture. This means that the cost of all software, infrastructure and expertise is shared by a large number of customers. All the client formats, e-billing vendor requirements, etc. are our sole resposibility. Instead of you building it once just for your firm, we have access to it from our library and can immediately provide its benefit to your firm. This drastically improves both implementation speed and cost effectiveness over a standard ASP model.

Cost-effective Infinite Scalability

The pay as you go model of the eBillingHub gives the customer the freedom to adapt to the changing usage of the software, on demand. You can commit a volume of 200 e-bills per month and after a few months you may have to react to the mandate of a client moving to ebilling that requires set up and processing of an additional 100, 200 or more e-bills per month. With the eBillingHub you call us. No fire drills, no template creation, no figuring out new logons, no training, no new e-billing vendor screens and client formats, etc.

The eBillingHub allows you to achieve measurable benefits instantly. And in addition, as your usage grows, the service can be expanded to those who want the visibility of the information regarding e-billing, such as the CFO or Controller and others at no additional charge. The eBillingHub provides all of this scalability, without requiring customers to plan for it.

Increased Accessibility and Productivity

Web based applications enable you to save your information on the Internet, thus making it easily accessible from anywhere. Your business knowledge is made accessible to all your knowledge workers increasing collaborative productivity. Geographically separated teams, such as e-billing clerical staff that may be located with their attorney, and also the centralized finance team that requires visibility across the staff, function better with better information availability.

Easy to implement

Since the solution is delivered via the Internet, the eBillingHub completely eliminates installation and setup at the customer’s end. Users can be up and running within days.

Improved Security

The eBillingHub is in the business of providing uninterrupted reliable services. Vendors understand that data must be backed up religiously, and information security is of fanatic priority. Skilled resources, network redundancies, stand-by power, up-to-date security and intrusion detection are mandatory infrastructure required to provide an enterprise class service. Such level infrastructural investment is usually overkill for a single organization or team.

Defined, Predictable Spending

The eBillingHub operates on agreed pre-defined fixed charges. This enables you to predict the costs and helps you budget for your yearly financial expenses. The low-cost of the package does not drastically affect the figures for unplanned usage of the service.

Platform Independence

The eBillingHub is hosted centrally so there is no need for software to be installed at the customer’s premises. The software can be accessed on the Internet via a browser only.

Focus internal IT initiatives only on direct, line of business technology

The eBillingHub not only eliminates the need for additional IT infrastructure spends, it substantially takes the burden off your internal IT staff. With the eBillingHub advantage, your staff does not have to manage upgrades, troubleshoot problems for generic software applications, and doesn’t have to react to new format or template requirements and be the help desk for submission errors and problems. This helps your firm to direct limited in-house IT resources towards more business oriented initiatives.