We believe that traditional, on-premise software is fundamentally anti-green, based on its slow pace of software innovation and reliance on multiple, redundant, outdated, and energy inefficient hardware.

Furthermore, we firmly believe that the Four Green Tenets of the SaaS delivery model significantly reduce the overall amount of carbon dioxide emissions, while at the same time enabling our customers to operate with greater agility, profitability, efficiency and innovation.

The multi-tenant SaaS model centralizes data center operations and uses less equipment and energy. Instead of thousands of individual customers operating thousands of their own servers, the multi-tenant, SaaS data center combines the operations of many companies, drives efficiencies, and directly reduces the amount of carbon dioxide emissions.

SaaS data centers are built to maximize energy efficiency and minimize waste. Power consumption is reduced through equipment density and cooling efficiency. What’s more, since SaaS data centers have stringent customer service level agreements, they are populated with the newest and most energy efficient equipment on the market, even further limiting environmental impact.

Because of the distance between client and application in the SaaS software environment, customer service level agreements demand extremely fast application delivery. Consequently, SaaS engineers are required to write code that is lean and elegantly simple, limiting the number of energy-wasting processor calls. In contrast, within the traditional, on-premise software environment, delivery speed is not a requirement and often viewed as inconsequential. As a result, on-premise code is heavy and complex, requiring multiple, inefficient, and power-consuming processor calls.

By definition, the SaaS software development model requires continual innovation that meets the real-time needs of customers. In contrast, traditional, on-premise software is built according to plan-driven development releases, which are usually large, long, and late.  The agile engineering approach used to develop SaaS software dramatically compresses development time and expedites the creation of energy-saving innovation. 

As a SaaS company, Clickability is committed to using only Saas applications when conducting company business. By relying on SaaS applications for Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and Sales, we strive to serve as a model for energy efficiency and corporate responsibility.

As articulated by these Four Green Tenets, Clickability fundamentally believes that moving away from on-premise software to innovative SaaS solutions is not only good for the environment, it is simply good business. A well-planned SaaS deployment reaps immediate financial returns and cost savings. But more importantly, it is a major step forward for those companies committed to creating a greener world for generations to come.