AMI Report on Hosted Application Market of Indian SMBs
                     AMI Report on Hosted Application Market of Indian SMBs
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According to the study by Access Markets International (AMI) 
Partners, Inc., more than US$45 million was spent on hosted 
applications by SMBs in India in 2009. Two-thirds of the total SMB 
expenditure of the country was accounted by medium businesses 
having employees between 100 and 999. Adoption of basic hosted 
applications was observed by medium as well as small businesses.
Investment in technology is not required for hosted applications. 
Allocation of time and resources is also not essential for software 
deployment and maintenance. So there had been a competition for 
hosted applications over licensed software. Provision of specific 
modules including CRM, HR, payroll, collaborative applications and 
others is more advantageous for vendors.
The study reported that there was a growth of 8% in the adoption of hosted 
application in 2009. Project management, merchant services, inventory 
management, billing, accounting or financial services, messaging, and payroll are 
some of the applications that can be included in hosted applications.
Utility computing can be achieved by cloud computing for helping customers in 
paying only for the computing resources they use. India served as a potential 
market for cloud computing which hosted several applications. A wide range of 
services such as development and hosting of managed applications off-premises 
can be possible.
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