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The same as Salesforce.com Blocks is a hosted [SAAS] solution. As a hosted CMS Blocks is in a unique space with few competitors and a growing market. There are only four significant players in the world, all playing in the upper tier/enterprise space according to CMS watch.

The benefits of SAAS to Blocks clients include;

• No investment or maintenance of hardware
• One point of support for all issues
• Custom built platform for delivering fast and efficient updates
• No workstation installs or upgrades
• No long term contracts

• Hosted central storage of all marketing files accessible anywhere via the web
• Regular backup of all marketing files internally and off-site nightly
• 24 hours high level security
• High availability meaning the data centre has many fail-over systems to ensure servers stay running and connected to the internet
• Simple to delegate and manage content creators over the internet with strong branding control
• No 3rd party plug-ins from open source untrustworthy, small or vulnerable developers
• Consistent quality of code and test coverage
• Not open source making it less likely to be a hacking target
• Accessible and locally supported [phone and email]

‘The Web CMS Report 2009’ describes SAAS products as ‘...a very real [and growing] market segment, as centralized corporate IT efforts appear to be on the wane, there is clearly a trend to push budgets and decisions-making powers down to the departmental level in big companies.’

Also a good article from The Age [Melbourne, Australia]