Historically corporate software companies spend thousands building new features for their ERP, HCM, Manufacturing systems and every 3-5 years customers worked on a major upgrade which involves thousands of dollars on multiple areas. This “major upgrade” was either a technology change, new functionality due to the change in the business model or a combination of those. In any case, this upgrade would also cost a few thousands and the cycle would start over again.
Back in 2014, when “SaaS” was at the early stages for Oracle, one of their products (Peoplesoft, now called Applications Unlimited), adopted a very innovative method for the corporate software industry. It was called Continuous Delivery Model (CDM) which for an on premise software was quite futuristic.
Oracle has recently announced, for their Software as a Service (SaaS) and other cloud products, a new “Continuous Delivery model” for its software looking for opportunities that would avoid big investments in future major upgrades. 2014 innovation was definitely the seed for what now has become the driver for stopping the bi-annual upgrades for their Cloud SaaS products and moving into quarterly updates.
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