Fredrik Nilsson of Axis Communications gives a talk promoting the benefits of SaaS.
While the talk focuses a bit on security applications, it’s refreshing to see that they’re not focusing exclusively on “remote recording” for video. Instead they are focusing more on “hosted software” aspect, where the video managment system is hosted.
The power point presentation does mention that DVR’s for the hosted service are often deployed on site. This is an important requirement for many if not most applications in order to make the solution cost effective.