Research Solutions, a provider of on-demand access to scientific, technical and medical information, today announced plans to focus on software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings in 2017 that will deliver a best-in-class research platform for businesses and business professionals. The company’s legacy transactional research retrieval services will be one of many integrated product features and service offerings within the new platform. Existing corporate and academic customers will be able to continue using transactional research retrieval services in their preferred research discovery environment.
Peter Derycz, President and CEO at Research Solutions :
Research Solutions’ new SaaS offerings represents a natural evolution for the company, enabling us to expand into multiple new and lucrative market segments. We are confident that our existing blue chip customer base will benefit from the new SaaS offerings, and also help us to shape it into a blockbuster research intelligence platform
Research Solutions currently serves greater than 70 percent of the world’s top 25 pharma companies and several Fortune 500 companies, including two of the Fortune 10. The company plans to launch a beta version of the new SaaS solution in the first calendar quarter of 2017.