Saasu

Saasu is an acronym for Software-as-a-Service-utility. It is a more recent extension of the original term SaaS (Software-as-Service) which entered use around 2003 largely due to the efforts of the on-demand software industry who were trying to educate the internet market to use browser based services particularly for CRM and business management rather than old-style software.

The origins of this acronym are unclear, howevever there is a company http://www.saasu.com in Australia which provides online accounting and business management software. The company started in 1999 or 2000 and serves small and medium size businesses in around 50+ countries.

A more appropriate explanation May Be the widely held belief that throughout history, major improvements in delivery of sophisticated technology to consumers involves either extreme decentralisation (such as the phone or video recorder) or centralisation as utilities either public or private (such as water utilities, power utilities, gas utilities, standards for technology, interconnection of phone networks) in order to deliver the cost, reliability and ease of use required to achieve mass adoption.