December 09 2010 — seekingalpha.com — Greenspace, a green building supplier based in Illinois, completed a study of enterprises using NetSuite's (N) ERP and CRM applications (Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management).

Customers in the Greenspace study were able to reduce overall server room electricity consumption by more than 90%, representing a decrease in cost of more than $10,300 per customer per year. Since server rooms and data centers account for as much as a third of an organization’s information technology budget, the size of the savings has enterprise and even government agencies taking notice. The cost of the servers is shifted to the SaaS provider, which at least in the case of NetSuite has proven capable of managing a more energy efficient data center.

Now the energy savings potential has business and government agencies fine tuning their calculations on the SaaS or cloud computing option versus outright software licenses to get the applications that will make their operations hum.

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