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		<title>Choosing the Best Digital Signage Providers: SaaS vs Self-Hosted</title>
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			<title>Todd says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well written,
I believe I have benefited from this article as I enter into sales of the SaaS model.
I consider it a merit that the author introduced the article by disclosing the bias of vested interest which of itself abases no fact.
Also, the restrained use of content-less sales adjectives.
I consider the notable use if the "F" word! Of course by this I mean fallacy. Then to top it off, the oft avoided suggestion that one have a reason to make a judgment.
The reason I mention this is it seems rather exceptional in many so called instructive articles.
Well done.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Todd</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Sarah says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Im pretty sure SaaS is more expensive in the long run, Monthly fees are very high and additional channel players are also very high]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>digital signage saas says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think people should use digital signage saas because it is easier and cheaper in the long run. Everything is sorted by your provider instead of running your own service.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>digital signage saas</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Dan says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Has anyone found a good list of the top SAAS Digital Signage providers? I'm looking for a list to review and select from for my company and when searching online I'm only finding a few. It is posible that I'm not using the best terms but would appreciate any advise as to companies to look into.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>DigitalSignage says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Great article. As I see it this is a new era of digital signage with new LED screens that can be used to advertise at major events around the globe.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>DigitalSignage</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Deepak says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bill,
I think the digital signage platform is still developing. Implementing SaaS would severly impact those networks who seek to built innovative application to capture the attention. SaaS could be out of box solution for certain networks that has very limited need and expectation out of the Digital Signage platform.
For networks, who wants to explore and push the technology limits and intend to design campaigns that set trends, needs to build them home.
Another, thought Bill, its intresting that everyone in DS tech world are building their own flavor of tech. Why not put some core fundamental architecture, like the e-learning industry has set, so that the interportability of content is more easier and real to the folks generating the content.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Deepak</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Eric says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Some of Keene's reasoning makes me wonder what he really knows about digital signage.
SaaS less scalable? I'm sure a "non-digital signage" company would have an infinitely easier time going from 100 to 200 players if they're using an SaaS solution compared to something they'd host themselves. Why wouldn't the SaaS provider be able to scale? As the developer they know the software / requirements best.
Constant internet? The players will run through a network outage. And what multi-location signage network doesn't use the internet? Are there that many networks running on satellite data-casting? We use a "non-SaaS" software and you are at the mercy of the internet too. Unless they're using their non-SaaS software to power a large single location network (i.e. on the same intranet) this is a non-issue.
Ponce: I'm not sure if #3 for "no SaaS" would be that accurate--in a lot of cases, going w/ SaaS would not be an issue.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Bill Gerba says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ponce,
Very nice summary. In general, I think you hit a lot of the key points right there. The only item I might disagree with is #3 in your "no saas reasons" category -- we've done a number of kiosk projects where the kiosks and kiosk applications are managed using our SaaS solution, but the data collected on the kiosks is forwarded along to an entirely separate set of servers, so that none of it ever resided on our servers.
Other than that, great job, thanks for writing it up!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Bill Gerba</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>--Ponce says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[SaaS or no SaaS
This is how I understand it ...
No SaaS Reasons:
1) Your company is extremely security sensitive .. Like the U.S. Department of Defense ...
2) Very customized solution in the sense that you need your own team of programmers and IT department to monitor and tweak the system frequently and quickly ...
3) Customized interactive kiosks that act as independent information portals that also collect user input/information ...
4) You company has big pockets, or readily available resources who do, such that you can afford you very own private system, programmers and IT maintenance team
Saas Reasons:
1) You are not the U.S Department of Defense and the provided security features of the SaaS solution are enough ...
2) The type of information you are piping to each portal requires little customization or a one-time customization at the onset ...
3) The interactive portals/kiosks are such that the customization is minimal (and does not require frequent tweaking) and data can reside on a remote server ...
4) You are on a tight budget and can't afford your own IT department much less you own team of programmers ...
5) You just don't want to have to manage yet another array of servers, network and software on an already stretched IT department ...
6) The low cost of upgrades, off-site server management, data storage, 24/7 uptime, and software upkeep can't be matched by your in-house resources ... and helps you sleep at night ...
Is this about right? Please let me know ...
--PONCE]]></description>
			<dc:creator>--Ponce</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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