Jared is a sales manager at a large company where employees use several cloud apps such as salesforce and Google Apps. The company decided to use these apps instead of purchasing apps that would run from their own servers, reducing the cost and complexity associated with their use. Apps like these are known as:

a. virtual enterprise applications

b. enterprise systems

c. software as a service

d. mobile apps

The correct answer is C. software as a service

Explanation:

Software as a service (SaaS) is a type of cloud computing. It is a software licencing model that allows a third-party provider to hosts several applications such as salesforce and Google Apps and makes them available to customers or users over the Internet. It allow the company's customers (users) to access programs through the internet servers, instead of having to install the applications on their computers.

Answer: C

Software as a service

Explanation:

Software as a service (SaaS) is a software distribution model in which a service provider hosts applications for customers and makes them available to these customers via the internet. Cloud computing is the most populous variant of Software as a Service (SaaS). SaaS has become a go-to service delivery model for many business applications, including office software, bookkeeping, virtualization, human resource management, content management, invoicing, payroll management etc.