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Figure 12.3 Perceived benefits of the cloud computing model according to the IT Cloud Services
Survey conducted by the IDC (adopted from Gens, 2009)
companies. As shown in Figure 12.4, easy maintenance (#1) and frequent updates
(#2) are the top two perceived benefits agreed among the customers. The majority
of respondents agreed that SaaS could reduce the initial cost and spread out the
total cost of purchasing software, although still 25% of the respondents
disagreed on it.
Figure 12.4 Benefits of SaaS perceived by customers in the Irish construction industry (adopted
from Hore et al., 2010)