David Terrar has a choice quote over at Business two zero "but It’s nice to hear that us SaaS evangelists are taking over the asylum.", whilst reviewing at Gartner's SaaS analysis and promoting the TCO leveraged from it. Nice one David and I agree that the one-to-many model is likely to win out long term.

Given yesterdays post around SaaS stemming from Dennis's posts I took a small survey of service pricing available for the items businesses might be interested in pursueing.

Some of it can be a little complicated, as there are some divergent pricing models, for example Blinksale charges per invoice, Freshbooks per account and others per user. I therefore figured it was time for a collaborated effort to make this easier to review ones options. The closes thing to utility pricing currently appears to be user based pricing, but this is by no means standard and pricing varies considerably.

Thus I have created the Business Services Matrix (BSM) aimed to illustrate service costing at a quick glance. It is open for anyone to edit, so add your favourite business web service or fill in any missing gaps.

Enjoy ;)