Given the proliferation of SaaS/cloud providers and solutions, it makes sense that many IT and business decision makers would like to take advantage of a "one-stop shop" where they can procure multiple SaaS apps and cloud services.
One indication of the rapid spread of SaaS/cloud solutions is THINKstrategies' Cloud Showplace, which has more than 1,900 SaaS, Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers divided into 90-plus different application, industry, technology and service categories.
Although it is the largest directory of cloud companies, it still lists less than half of the overall universe of providers.
