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SIGMA focuses the development and support of two main suites of solutions for the Higher Education institutions core business, VEGA Student Information System and ARGOS Research Information System. Technology and Innovation are the backbone of the services and solutions provided by SIGMA, based on a highly open source development and deployment platform for J2EE5 certified application servers compliant on a multi-tier and high performance proven open architecture. Internationalization is one of SIGMA's top priorities, as well. For years SIGMA has established relationships with other European universities consortiums. Lately SIGMA has open new strategic areas of interest such as SaaS, BI, eLearning and Mobile.

Ramón Grau, CEO

Survey Analysis: Buyers Tell Us About SaaS and Cloud Adoption Through 2014
Joanne Correia | Chad Eschinger | Yanna Dharmasthira | Jeff Roster|
Kathy Harris
15 October 2012
Buyers of software as a service or cloud applications across 10 countries tell us that they are now replacing existing software with SaaS instead of net-new software. Their experience with SaaS applications is less than 2 years old and based on differing levels of maturity and type of application.

Key Findings

Users are implementing software as a service (SaaS) solutions either as replacements to legacy applications or in "greenfield" situations. In the past 12 months, Gartner has seen a decline in the proportion of SaaS deployed to augment existing applications.

SIGMA Content

About SIGMA
SIGMA Gestion Universitaria is a not-for-profit consortium established in 1996 by a group of 8 top level Spanish Public Universities to provide technological solutions to their needs for managing academic, learning, research and organization processes.

SIGMA SaaS in Higher Education
Since 2011 SIGMA has been working on developing a Software as a Service model to address new customers requeriments. The process is explained from origins till the next future goals.

Interview with Dr. Pere Regull, IQS CEO
Dr. Pere Regull, IQS CEO, explains why its institution has shift to the SIS VEGA SaaS model offered by SIGMA and how that decision has improved the service for the community.

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