A Review of SaaS Profit Maximization in Cloud Computing

Computing is one of the most important field in the current world. It has come out to be an attractive and useful way of changing the whole computing world. Migrating from conventional software to cloud enables on-going revenue for software providers. In order to deliver hosted services to the customers, SaaS providers can do two things either they maintain their own hardware or they rent it from the infrastructure providers. This incurs extra cost to the SaaS providers. In order to reduce this extra infrastructure cost and satisfy the customers need some methods should be developed. This paper focuses on the SaaS providers who want to minimise this extra cost and SLA violations without hampering the customer demands and to maximise their profit. This paper presents an extensive assessment study to analyse the literature survey of SaaS profit maximisation. Keywords—Cloud Computing, Software as a Service, Service Level Agreement