{"id":1121,"date":"2026-01-28T12:06:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:06:41","slug":"software-as-a-service-saas-%e2%87%92-service-as-a-service-saas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"Software as a service (SaaS) \u21d2 Service as a service (SaaS) ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Services make up over 72% of U.S. GDP. Globalisation, digitisation, and labour market evolution have all conspired to favour services over products in the grand scheme of the economy. In software, the first wave of servicification came with SaaS, but look closely and the mirage of services is dispelled, revealing underneath it nothing more than a billing model change. When Adobe ended perpetual licenses for Creative Suite in 2013 and moved to Creative Cloud, it didn\u2019t change the product, only how you paid for it. Microsoft Office followed suit, with the entire industry doing the same soon enough.<br \/>\nBehind the SaaS, we\u2019re still paying for tools users have to learn, manage, and operate, just now the product is rented monthly. SaaS is service in name, product in nature and all-round ARR-machine in intent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Services make up over 72% of U.S. GDP. Globalisation, digitisation, and labour market evolution have all consp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}