<p>One of the principal business considerations around the new SharePoint 2013 official release is going to be pricing. We already saw signs that with the Office 365 upgrade, Microsoft is pushing users towards subscription models. But what about SharePoint 2013 as SaaS? Web hosting vendor Newtek is going to be offering just that. SharePoint, SaaS</p><p>Newtek Web Hosting is a subsidiary of the much larger and better known Newtek Business Services, enterprises that are looking to move to SharePoint 2013 to take advantage of the new components only have to sign up and start working.</p><p>There are many obvious advantages to this, not least of which is that with the Newtek services, enterprises won't have to worry about the deployment issues or managing their SharePoint environment as this will all be done in a hosted environment.</p><p>Of course, pricing is going to be the big driver here, with Newtek saying said that the new hosted service will be suitable for small businesses and will offer them an alternative to SharePoint Online. Start-up pricing will look like this:</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/newtek-offering-sharepoint-2013-as-saas-020436.php">Keep reading...</a></p>