Hello, My company is trying to commercialize an ad-hoc reporting web app (which was used internally), and offer it through different types of packages to sell online. The product is fairly complete with the exception of billing by report, provisioning datasets, handling licenses, account management.....etc I'm looking for ways on how to achieve this.
Is this a case where you start using a SaaS platform? Are there any open source platforms that you can use to "hook up" via web service calls to achieve this commercialization platform (our technology is J2EE)? Also, how is this related to cloud computing?
if you think my understanding of SaaS skewed, please refer me to the right literature to read. Thanks! :)