[dnlrn]

What is the reason this is sold as a SaaS instead of a traditional program?

A traditional program would have many advantages for the user:

* No limit on documents per month

* works offline

* Reports (which may contain company secrets) are not uploaded on a third party server

While other SaaS offerings always have some kind if advantage like having integrated support, I'm wondering whether a document converter (this is basically what it is) is the right software for a SaaS.

[murbard2]

It's sold as SaaS because you make more money selling it as such, you get a recurring source of revenue without having to sell updates which can be costly to push.

That said, as a personal user, I find the pricing very steep. I'm going to look for a free alternative.

[jagthedrummer]

One of the main reasons this is a SaaS is that all of software that is part of the processing pipeline required to produce documents of this quality can be very hard to install and configure properly. This is aimed at people who would rather be creating documents than wrestling with a DIY approach. Being a SaaS also means that people can access their documents from any device that has a halfway capable web browser. There's nothing to download, install or update.