Blue Pages: Software as a Service Data Set

Blue Pages is a repository that contains data collected on Software as a Service(SaaS). The repository lists SaaS information according to an organization's functional needs. Blue Pages holds thousands of records on SaaS applications' business profiles. The data was extracted between February 2015 and August 2015 from the following web portals: www.cloudreviews.com & www.getApp.com. Every record holds details on the service offerings, including service name, the date the service was founded, service category, free trial (yes/no), mobile app (yes/no), starting price, service description, service type and provider link. The dataset is the first to provide information on SaaS. The dataset presented in this paper can be used in future research in cloud service selection and cloud service discovery. The dataset is available online through the Blue Page website http://www.bluepagesdataset.com/.