Title: Unit-level overview
Course: PEBL Cloud Computing > Section: Unit 7 - Software Development in the Cloud

Unit-level overview

The aim of this unit is to help you gain knowledge of how SaaS applications are developed in a PaaS environment.

This topic covers:

1. Differentiating SaaS from traditional applications.
2. The benefits of SaaS applications to users & service providers.
3. The challenges of using SaaS applications.
4. Developing SaaS applications using PaaS

At the end of this unit, you will be able to:

1. Differentiate traditional applications from SaaS applications.
2. Describe the benefits of using SaaS applications.
3. Discuss the challenges of using and developing SaaS applications.
4. Develop a SaaS application in a PaaS environment.